Godard: Celebrating the Late Great French Director with New Documentaries and Features (Cannes Classics 2023)

Godard par Godard
Godard by Godard

Written by Frédéric Bonnaud and directed by Florence Platarets
1h, France

An Ex Nihilo production, with the participation of France Télévisions and the CNC.

Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard.

It retraces the unique and unheard-of path, made up of sudden detours and dramatic returns, of a filmmaker who never looks back on his past, never makes the same film twice, and tirelessly pursues his research, in a truly inexhaustible diversity of inspiration. Through Godard’s words, his gaze and his work, the film tells the story of a life of cinema; that of a man who will always demand a lot of himself and his art, to the point of merging with it.

Screening in the presence of Florence Platarets and Frédéric Bonnaud.

World premiere !
Film annonce du film qui n’existera jamais : « Drôles de Guerres »
Trailer of the film that will never exist: « Phony Wars »
Jean-Luc Godard
20′, France / Switzerland 

A Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and Vixens production, in coproduction with L’Atelier.

Jean-Luc Godard often transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs.

Drôles de guerres follows in this tradition and will remain as the ultimate gesture of cinema, which he accompanies with the following text:

«No longer trusting the billions of diktats of the alphabet to give back their freedom to the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a true language by returning to the places of past shootings, while taking into account the present stories. »

Screening in the presence of Fabrice Aragno.