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A filmmaker goes back to work by shooting a big production called Le Boléro fatal. His daughter, a philosophy teacher, tries to stage the play On ne badine pas avec l’amour in Sarajevo. The episode cinema is what is left from an initial plan of shooting in Portugal, from Fernando Pessoa and his The Book of Disquiet. The beautiful definition of cinema as a “saturation of magnificent signs bathing in the light of their absence of explanation” belongs to Manoel de Oliveira.
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Cast:
Vicky Messica, Madeleine Assas, Frédéric Pierrot, Ghalya Lacroix, Michel Francini, Sabine Bail, Max André, Harry Cleven, Sarah Bensoussan, Sylvie Herbert, Marc Faure, Yazna Zivanovic, Nathalie Dorval, François Savioz, Valerio Popesco, Gérard Baum, Norbert Krief, Eric Pichon, Boris Andersen, Alain Wilmet, Nedeljko Grujic, Bérangère Allaux, Xavier Boulanger, Cécile Reigher, Dominique Pozzetto, Stanislas Gaczol, Valérie Delagre, Hervé Langlois, Alain Moussay, Jean Grécault, Euryale Wynter -
Original Title:
For Ever Mozart -
Country:
France, Switzerland -
Year:
1996 - 84’
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard is undeniably the contemporary filmmaker whose thought and film work were the most influential on modern cinema and other artistic domains, arousing extensive and valuable theoretical and critical analysis to this day,
His work spans several movements - from the principles defended during his time as a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma and put into action in the New Wave aesthetics, of which he was a leading figure (with his seminal Breathless preceding a series of equally remarkable titles such as My Life to Live, Contempt, Pierrot le Fou, Made in U.S.A. or the caustic Week End, where the end of cinema itself is declared), to the more recent, experimental film-essays (Film Socialisme and Goodbye to Language), not to mention his most radical period (of the Dziga Vertov Group). Both aesthetically and politically, Godard created an immense and challenging body of work.
His work is profoundly reflexive, full of citations, references and allusions of several origins (cinematographic, literary, musical, philosophical, scientific, political), capable of merging “high” and “low” culture, working in an innovative way with archive footage, video (the whole SonImage production, a company he established with Anne-Marie Miéville in 1972, is a small world to be discovered) and 3D. Always with an absolutely unmistakable signature, Godard’s work challenges History (and the history of cinema, with a small climax in the monumental Histoire(s) du Cinéma), the traumas of our time and the language (and its limits) with which we (do not) communicate.
It is to this indispensable author that the Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival pays homage in its 10th edition, presenting a complete retrospective of his films and an International Symposium, Godard vu par....
His work spans several movements - from the principles defended during his time as a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma and put into action in the New Wave aesthetics, of which he was a leading figure (with his seminal Breathless preceding a series of equally remarkable titles such as My Life to Live, Contempt, Pierrot le Fou, Made in U.S.A. or the caustic Week End, where the end of cinema itself is declared), to the more recent, experimental film-essays (Film Socialisme and Goodbye to Language), not to mention his most radical period (of the Dziga Vertov Group). Both aesthetically and politically, Godard created an immense and challenging body of work.
His work is profoundly reflexive, full of citations, references and allusions of several origins (cinematographic, literary, musical, philosophical, scientific, political), capable of merging “high” and “low” culture, working in an innovative way with archive footage, video (the whole SonImage production, a company he established with Anne-Marie Miéville in 1972, is a small world to be discovered) and 3D. Always with an absolutely unmistakable signature, Godard’s work challenges History (and the history of cinema, with a small climax in the monumental Histoire(s) du Cinéma), the traumas of our time and the language (and its limits) with which we (do not) communicate.
It is to this indispensable author that the Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival pays homage in its 10th edition, presenting a complete retrospective of his films and an International Symposium, Godard vu par....
