Director: Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina), and leaves the bourgeoisie behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard’s tenth feature in six years is a stylish mash-up of consumerist satire, politics, and comic-book [...]
Director: Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
Detective Lemmy Caution finds himself in Alphaville, a city in a futuristic totalitarian state, ruled by a computer known as Alpha 60. Science has replaced humanity and Lemmy seeks to discover who is responsible for the supression of individuality and love. When he falls in love with a woman, who has no [...]
Director: Jean-Luc Godard (1964)
One of pioneering director Jean-Luc Godard’s most accessible films is this French spin on Dolores Hitchens’ novel Fool’s Gold. It tells the tale of three disaffected youths who plan a burglary, leading to deadly results. The alienated young trio is marvelous, particularly Anna Karina, and the early scenes of their clearly overdeveloped [...]
Director: Jean-Luc Godard (1963)
Set during the Algerian War, Le Petit Soldat follows Bruno Forestier, a disillusioned young deserter who becomes involved in the French nationalist movement. He is ordered to kill an Algerian sympathizer, and although he does not hold deep political beliefs, commits the murder and undergoes torture when captured. At the same time, [...]
Director: Jean-Luc Godard (1961)
With UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME, French director Jean-Luc Godard pays tribute to American musicals in much the same way that his debut feature, the critical and commercial smash hit BREATHLESS, did to
American gangster films. The story follows the beautiful Angela (Anna Karina), a strip-tease artist who wants nothing more than to [...]