Le gai savoir (original title)
95 min
Country: France | West Germany
Language: French
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writers: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (text)
Stars: Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Jean-Luc Godard
How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions. In addition to the two characters' musings, the soundtrack includes narration, music, news clips, and noise. The result is a montage, a meditation, a reflection on ideas and how words and images mix - and how filmmaking is a path. (IMDB)
Joy of Learning (French: Le Gai savoir) is a 1969 film by Jean-Luc Godard, started before the events of May 68 and finished shortly afterwards. Coproduced by the O.R.T.F., the film was upon completion rejected by French national television, then released in the cinema where it was subsequently banned by the French government. The film was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival. The title references Nietzsche's The Gay Science.(Wikipedia)
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