Cinema Releases - Film Socialisme
A symphony in three movements
THINGS SUCH AS:
A Mediterranean cruise. Numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday...
OUR EUROPE
At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
OUR HUMANITIES.
Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.
Born in 1930, Jean-Luc Godard became acquainted, while at the university, with Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, forming part of a group of passionate young film critics writing in Cahiers du Cinéma, and film-makers devoted to exploring new possibilities in cinema.
A bout de souffle (Breathless) (1959) was his first feature. Made on a shoe-string budget, it was spontaneous, vibrant and ground breakingly original.
His films have influenced film-makers as diverse as Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch, Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino and Wong Kar-Wai.
As the 1960s progressed, Godard became fascinated with developments in new media. Amongst his 'revolutionary films for revolutionary people' is his highly regarded Histoire(s) du cinema.
His latest film, Film Socialisme, received its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard) to great acclaim. Jean-Luc Godard also received an honorary Oscar in 2010.
Reda an interview (translated) fromLes Inrockuptibles
1959 À bout de souffle (Breathless)
1961 Une femme est une femme (A Woman Is a Woman)
1962 Vivre sa vie (To Live One's Life)
1963 Le Petit soldat (The Little Soldier)
1964 Bande à part (Band of Outsiders)
1964 Une femme mariée : fragments d'un film tourné en 1964 en noir et blanc (A Married Woman)
1965 Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Alphaville)
1966 Masculin Féminin : 15 faits précis
1966 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (2 or 3 Things I Know About Her)
1968 Sympathy for the Devil (One plus One)
1968 Un Film comme les autres
1969 Le Gai Savoir
1969 Le Vent d'est (Wind from the East)
1970 Vladimir et Rosa
1970 Pravda
1970 Lotte in Italia (Struggles in Italy)
1970 British Sounds
1972 One P.M.
1972 Tout va bien (Everything's Fine)
1972 Letter to Jane
1975 Numéro deux
1976 : Ici et ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere)
1977 Six fois deux / Sur et sous la communication (Six Times Two: On and Beneath Communication)
1977 France / tour / detour / deux enfants (France/Tour/Detour/Two/Children)
1978 Comment ça va?
1979 Sauve qui peut (la vie) Slow Motion (UK)Every Man for Himself (US)
1983 Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen)
1985 Je vous salue, Marie (Hail Mary)
1986 Soft and Hard
1987 Soigne ta droite, une place sur la terre (Keep Your Right Up)
1990 Nouvelle Vague
1991 Allemagne 90 neuf zéro (Germany Year 90)
1993 Hélas pour moi
1994 JLG/JLG, autoportrait de décembre (JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December)
1995 2 x 50 ans de cinéma français (2 x 50 French Cinema Years)
1998 Histoire(s) du cinéma — 1988-1998
2001 Eloge de l'amour (In Praise of Love)
2004 Notre musique (Our Music)
2010 Film Socialisme (Film Socialism)
A film by Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Paul Battagia, Fabrice Aragno, Paul Grivas, François Musy, Renaud Musy, Gabriel Hafner, Louma Sanbar, Yousri Nasrallah, Anne-Marie Miéville
Music Betty Olivero, Arvo Pärt, Anouar Brahem, Tomasz Stańko, Alfred Schnittke, Paco Ibáñez, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Giya Kancheli, Werner Pirchner, Ernst Busch, Thierry Machuel, Beethoven, Chet Baker
Singers/Songwriters Barbara, Gabriella Ferri, Joan Baez, Alain Bashung & Chloe Mons, Mina, Patti Smith
Produced by Ruth Waldburger, Alain Sarde
Production Vega Film, Office Fédéral de la Culture, Télévision Suisse Romande, Ville de Généve, Suissimage, Fonds Regio Films, Foundation Vaudoise, George Foundation
Wild Bunch, Canal Plus
With
Catherine Tanvier
Christian Sinniger
Jean Marc Stehlé
Agatha Couture
Marie-Christine Bergier
Nadège Beausson-Diagne
Mathias Domahidy
Quentin Grosset
Olga Riazanova
Maurice Sarfati
Dominique Devals
Louma Sanbar
Gulliver Hecq
Marine Battaggia
Elizabeth Vitali
Eye Haidera
and
Patti Smith
Lenny Kaye
Alain Badiou
Bernard Maris
Elias Sanbar
Robert Maloubier
Switzerland/ France / 2010 / 102 mins / 1:78 / Dolby SRD / In French, English and German with English subtitles / Certificate: tbc
★★★★
'A passionate flurry of visual and aural experiments – enjoy the compositions, textures, shapes , colours and juxtapositions…'
David Jenkins, TIME OUT
'An interesting and often beautiful work …the clashing visual styles is often thrilling'
Patrick Peters, EMPIRE
'THE FRESHEST, COOLEST THING I SAW IN CANNES'
Jason Solomons The Observer
Peter Bradshaw talks about Film Socialisme during the 2010 Cannes Film Festival: 'Intriguing, fascinating....'
'The defiant glitter of FILM SOCIALISME...“Mischievous and mysterious at all times Jean-Luc Godard presented Cannes, with his latest and possibly even his last work, FILM SOCIALISME....Cannes, and cinema, would be duller and dumber without him.'
Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN'The visual drama is extraordinary...breathtaking images...scenes of rare tenderness and exquisite beauty...ravishing Film Socialisme.'
Amy Taubin, FILM COMMENT
'...one of [Godard's] most alluring and most coherent meditations...His political vision is, literally, visual: filming aboard a ship and in various ports of call, evoking relevant historical landmarks and artifacts, watching a family work out its domestic policy, Godard offers images that are multifaceted, even contrapuntal. His aesthetic genius and his revolutionary project are both a way of seeing and a way of life: a family, a society, and an image all start with one plus one.'
Richard Brody, The New Yorker
'Film Socialisme is the most thought-provoking film you will see in 2011, and, in all honesty, probably the most thought provoking film made since the last Godard film. (And while I’m at it, the next film as intelligent as this one will probably be whatever film Godard makes next.)'
Article on Tribeca.com
'Endlessly influential and perpetually controversial'
A.O.Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES
Read an article on Film Socialisme in CinemaScope
Trailer 1 Trailer 2 Trailer 3 Trailer 4 Trailer 5 Trailer 6 UK Trailer in HD
Download UK press book Download the Cannes Pressbook For photos go to the Images section of this to download
Dialogue list + English translation here Dialogue list + English transation condensed for printing here
French website for Film Socialisme Link for downloading images from French website
Visit Vega Film, Film Socialisme's production company
Watch a Video clip of Peter Bradshaw discussing Film Socialisme during the Cannes Film Festival
Watch a long Q&A after a screening in Paris (French only)
Read an article on Film Socialisme in Cinema Scope
Film Socialisme annotated by David Phelps
Read an article by Amy Taubin in Film Comment
Translated interview with Godard in Les Inrockuptibles published during the Cannes Film Festival
Read a November 2010 interview of Godard in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung (in German) discussing his Oscar and other matters. An English translation is available here
Read Lucian Robinson's blog entry on the recent furore over Godard's Oscar award.
Read Colin MacCabe's review of Antoine de Baecque's recent biography of Godard in the New Statesman