Jean-Luc Godard, Macha Méril, Anna Karina, Marina Vlady. Title from sell sheet. Originally produced in 2023. Bonus features: Trailer of a film that will never exist: Phony wars (directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 2023); LILA: inside Godard's cutting room with his assistant editor, Lila Lakshmanan (2023); Godard cinema theatrical trailer.
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Trailer of a film that will never exist: phony wars / a film by Jean-Luc Godard (20 min). Trailer of a film that will never exist: phony wars / a film by Jean-Luc Godard (20 min).
Summary:
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist, and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema allows film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director. At the time of his death in September 2022, Jean-Luc Godard had been planning another feature, an adaptation of Belgian author Charles Plisnier's 1937 novel Faux Passports. Though it was never produced, Godard put together the intricate and beautiful Trailer Of A Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars, which now stands as his final work, a complex collage of history, politics, and cinema constructed of paper and glue, paintings and photographs, sound and silence. He accompanied it with the following text: "Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by returning to the locations of past film shoots while keeping track of modern times."
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