Based on Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Juliette Bertho.
Summary:
Godard's film about language is a modern interpretation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile, a treatise on education in the style of a novel. The film is a colorful attack on the ways in which western society has poisoned its language by imbuing words with subtle meanings and built-in preconceptions which determine our actions. The filmmaker's protagonists are a young man and woman who meet in a television studio and conduct a dialogue illustrated by comic strips, interviews, street signs, outrageous printed puns and dozens of other devices. The film is a pure expression of cinema without conventional narrative plot, characters, and theme. (Does not circulate).
OCLC:
(OCoLC)317357868
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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