Le gai savoir (1969)

Joy of Learning (1969)
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)

First Name: Carmen (1983)

First Name: Carmen (1983)
Prénom Carmen (original title)
85 min

Country: France
Language: French


Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writers: Anne-Marie Miéville (scenario), Anne-Marie Miéville (adaptation)
Stars: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé and Myriem Roussel

Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young police officer guarding a bank that she and her cohorts try to rob. She leads him on while dragging the two of them closer to their ultimate doom. Jean-Luc Godard intercuts the film with shots of a string quartet practicing Beethoven, and his main protagonist, Carmen, is played by Maruschka Detmers creating a stunning effect in many scenes of extended nudity.(IMDB Link)

Awards:
Golden Lion- Venice Film festival (1983)
Special Prize for Raoul Coutard (Cinematographer) and Francois Musy (Sound) in Venice Film Festival (1983)

Rating: 88% (Rotten Tomatoes Critics)
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