Director: Jean-Luc Godard (1993)
Hélas pour moi is the story of journalist Abraham Klimt (Bernard Verley)’s investigation of a case of divine possession. In 1989 God enters the body of filmmaker Simon Donnadieu (Gérard Depardieu). When Simon returns home, his wife Rachel (Laurence Masliah) realizes something is amiss but sticks by her newly divine husband. As [...]
Director: Jean-Luc Godard (1983)
Jean, a former filmmaker who lives in voluntary retirement in a Parisian clinic, in spite of being diagnosed sane, is visited by his niece Carmen who asks if she and some friends can borrow his apartment, ostensibly to do some film tests for a wealthy patron. However, this is a cover for [...]
Director: Jean-Luc Godard (1982)
On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making. While Solidarity takes on the Polish government, a Polish film director, Jerzy, is stuck in France making a film for TV. He’s over budget and uninspired; the film, called “Passion,” seems [...]
Director: Jean-Luc Godard (1966)
Paul is young, just demobbed from national service in the French Army, and dishillusioned with civilian life. As his girlfriend builds herself a career as a pop singer, Paul becomes more isolated from his friends and peers (’the children of Marx and Coca Cola’, as the credits announce) and their social and [...]
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 [...]