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"But that’s the point: Godard likes his audience to work hard"
A loner of French cinema; he is an onlooker, at one with his thoughts and with an inner commentary that spills onto the movie screen with vigour and passion. At 83 he is still very much into his craft, and his skill as an editor, though very much of the old school, still has the capacity to impress
IN CONVERSATION WITH JEAN-LUC GODARD. FILMMAKER EXTRAORDINAIRE
My last Godard link for the day. I promise.
Read: "ADIEU AU LANGAGE: 2 + 2 x 3D” by David Bordwell
The brute fact is that these movies are, moment by moment, awfully opaque. Not only do characters act mysteriously, implausibly, farcically, irrationally. It’s hard to assign them particular wants, needs, and personalities. They come into conflict, but we’re not always sure why. In addition, we aren’t often told, at least explicitly, how the characters connect with one another. The plots are highly elliptical, leaving out big chunks of action and merely suggesting them, often by a single close-up or an offscreen sound. Godard’s narratives pose not only problems of interpretation but problems of comprehension—building a coherent story world and the actions and agents in it.
ADIEU AU LANGAGE: 2 + 2 x 3D
And a follow up...
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"The 83-year-old filmmaker has the attitude of a young innovator."
"For every project, he's looking for the unknown," Maraval says. "He looks for an experience. He doesn't know where he goes, and that's what motivates him. That's what I call being very young. ... He's always very ready for adventure."
At 83, Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard Makes The Leap To 3-D
"So I learned the rules, and I saw that it’s not very interesting with the rules.”
For the deep-horizon outside images, Aragno similarly ignored the usual guidelines: “Hollywood says you shouldn’t have more than six centimeters between cameras, so I began at 12 to see what happened.”
Goodbye to 3-D Rules
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