Film Socialisme DVD & Download

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.

The DVD will have a choice of subtitles in English (complete version) or the original "Navajo" English version.

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.

Filmography

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)

1963 Les Carabiniers

1963 Le Mépris (Contempt)

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)

1965 Pierrot le fou

1966 Masculin Féminin : 15 faits précis

1966 Made in U.S.A.

1966 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (2 or 3 Things I Know About Her)

1967 La Chinoise

1967 Week End

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)

1982 Passion

1983 Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen)

1985 Je vous salue, Marie (Hail Mary)

1985 Détective (Detective)

1986 Soft and Hard

1987 King Lear

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)

1996 For Ever Mozart

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.'

'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

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