Godard Cinema
September 25, 2023
In trying to uncover the real Jean-Luc, filmmaker Cyril Leuthy sat down with Godard’s many collaborators, friends and critics who have a lot to say about an eternal rebel who was still exhausting himself in the hunt for a perfect cinema, even with 140 films under his belt.
Preceded by Godard’s final short film, Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars, which was meant to be a feature film project but was unable to be completed after Godard's death last year at the age of 93.
A portrait in the spirit of Godard, Godard Cinema is divided into six chapters, each inspired by phases of his life’s work, spanning the 40 years from his breakthrough with Breathless in 1960 to his late magnum opus Histoire(s) du cinéma.
In trying to uncover the real Jean-Luc, filmmaker Cyril Leuthy sat down with Godard’s many collaborators, friends and critics who have a lot to say about an eternal rebel who was still exhausting himself in the hunt for a perfect cinema, even with 140 films under his belt.
Weaving a tapestry of iconic scenes together - from Godard's beloved classics to his more challenging, esoteric work Godard Cinema offers a portrait of a man whose constant reinvention of himself and the boundaries of the medium changed the fabric of the filmic art form, whose repercussions will be felt long after his last breath.
- Director: Cyril Leuthy
- Country: France
- Year: 2022
- Running Time: 100 min.
- Producer: Cathy Palumbo, Victor Robert
- Screenplay: Cyril Leuthy
- Cinematographers: Gertrude Baillot, Thomas Dappelo
- Editors: Philippe Baillon, Cyril Leuthy
- Music: Thomas Dappelo
- Language: French
