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Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard's densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the attempts by a young group of idealists to stage a play in war-torn Sarajevo and an elderly director's efforts to complete his film.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Director(s): Jean-Luc Godard
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
56%
NOT RATED
Year:
1996
84 min
299 Views


It's not natural.

Get something else.

Seriously... what's the problem?

Everything. There's not enough water.

It's all wrong.

I was told to keep expenses down.

Let's go.

I'll call the production office.

Don't forget the paychecks.

Who will the actress be?

We'll tell you later.

Here are the pictures.

They're all cows.

What do you think?

Why do cows always look

so grumpy?

If your breasts were yanked on

four times a day

and you only got f***ed once a year,

you'd look grumpy too.

Have you read it?

Yes. In my opinion...

We don't want it!

I don't care about the story!

The title should be "Fatal Bolero"

and the girl should die

in a twister!

Yes, sir.

This must be why I've always felt

a profound sadness in the cinema.

Both a possibility of expression

and the trace of something

essential, renounced.

Butt-f*** me, bastard.

Shove your cock

up the b*tch's ass.

Slide your dick up her butt.

Stick your prick...

Place your bets.

- So what's the news?

- Some good, some bad.

I'll be right back.

I found cheap actors.

He's here. He wants money.

Who are these people asking for money?

What have they done?

None of them

has ever sent me a nice letter.

I'll sign two more, then it's over!

We still need... some cash, sir!

Show me that.

Place your bets.

Go sit down.

Did I spell it right?

No!

Place your bets.

Number 36, Baron...

You think so?

Like the Popular Front?

Exactly. Paid vacations.

Long live vacations!

Do your homework!

Number 36.

36, red, even, passe.

Godammit, piss up my crack,

piss up my bung hole!

Give me a raise, Baron.

Butt-f*** me to death!

We found cheap actors.

Go away!

I need cash, sir!

See if they're still breathing.

You're crazy.

How horrible!

Not at all. Didn't Cocteau say:

"The cinema... "

That's right.

There's a woman in here.

A man in here.

We'll meet at the hotel.

Knowledge of the possibility

of representation consoles us

for being enslaved to life.

Knowledge of life

consoles us

for the fact that representation

is but shadow.

No film stock.

- Since when?

- 3 weeks.

I'm half an f-stop off.

I'll take care of it.

We're not tourists.

Why "Fatal"?

There's no use. I can't.

Let's start over, Miss.

It's too hard.

It's because you're acting.

Acting weakens the text.

Acting removes its presence.

It sucks the blood out of it.

You've received money.

It's time to work.

When will you shoot the battle?

There is no battle.

The script!

How about page 121?

Ah yes... you're right.

There... It's done.

Lesson 32.

John Ford. Henry Fonda.

"She Wore a Yellow Ribbon".

I have an idea.

He has an idea!

Don't you care that I love you?

See you tomorrow.

- Can I come in?

- What for?

So I can teach you the rest.

- You're harsh.

- That's how I feel.

Because you've never suffered.

I've made mistakes...

but I've loved.

I don't understand the "Fatal".

Can I ask him?

He won't answer you.

In a novel,

a house or a person

gets all its signification

its very existence,

from the writer.

Here, a house or a person

gets a small amount

of its meaning from me.

It's true signification

is much larger. It's gigantic.

It is to exist here and now,

like you and me,

like no imagined character can exist.

Its immense weight,

its mystery and its dignity

arise from this fact.

The fact that I exist,

me too,

not like in a work of fiction,

but as a human being.

Yes, Dad.

I knew it'd end like this.

Not knowing

where to put the camera.

What do we do?

Put the camera

in front of the actors.

Rolling!

"Bolero Fatal", 52.

Yes, there's more.

Now that I'm unemployed,

during these slow, empty hours

there rises

from the depths of my soul

and... into my mind,

a sadness.

2.8 minus 1/4.

Yes, Dad!

We'll make it easier.

Just say the "Yes" at the beginning.

Yes... sir.

Perfect. That will do.

We weren't rolling.

We're reloading.

We have time.

What's the problem now?

I prefer to die.

Whenever you're ready, Miss.

I'm going to lunch.

I'm staying.

How horrible.

It's what I like in cinema.

A saturation of glorious signs,

bathing in the light

of their absent explanation.

I'm cold!

Fight, Miss.

I am fighting.

Let's go.

Okay.

You're better already.

Yes.

Okay, cut!

The sound's okay!

The camera too!

My master once said:

"I conceive of nothing as infinite.

"How can I conceive

of anything as infinite?"

"Listen," I said.

"Imagine a space,

"and that beyond this space

is more space,

"and farther on,

there's more and more.

"It's never-ending. "

"Why," asked my master?

I was stupefied.

"If it ends," I shouted,

"what's beyond it?"

"If it ends, beyond it is nothing,"

he answered.

My master was the only philosopher

who was truly sincere.

What's going on?

We're ruined, honey.

They ran off with the money.

Where to?

Now I'll have to work.

No, we have the negative.

What's that for?

We'll make prints

and open the movie fast.

It's in black and white!

No, it's in color.

Dumb b*tch,

it's black and white!

If it's poetry, I'll walk out.

We pay enough taxes as it is.

Look, we'll be able to buy

your Omega.

Not an Omega.

I'm not in the Olympics.

Whatever you want!

Judging by that...

I'll end up with a Swatch.

Is your husband here?

It's Mr Felix!

Quiet. Keep working.

Does it start soon?

If it doesn't, I'm leaving.

It's in black and white.

I hope it's not poetry.

It looks like a winner!

Why "Fatal"?

It's the name of a war.

We lost many friends.

Your f***ing movie

is full of corpses?

- Not exactly.

- The cinema is all about waiting!

Shut up!

Sorry, kid. There are no tits!

Miss, you'll see.

What's the movie about?

The photography is gorgeous,

you'll see, Miss.

Are there any b*obs?

- No, no b*obs.

- Any knockers?

Your grandmother used that word.

No knockers!

Get lost, dickwad!

Get that a**hole out of here!

Beat it, little prick!

Let's go see "Terminator 4".

Come back, friends! Come back!

We'll change the movie!

Where's the mistake?

Mother and I told you,

you have to turn the page.

Justice prevails.

I knew it.

Try it as a farewell to the tutti

and an invitation to the solo.

It's another world.

Built up from nothing,

then come back to nothing.

Let's begin.

Yes, Governor.

I prefer Wagner.

Not Wagner!

You'd hear him at the bottom of the sea!

Whereas Mozart...

It's gentle and light.

That's what people think.

Let's begin.

Yes, Governor.

Too many notes in Mozart.

That's what people think.

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (French: [ʒɑ̃lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement.Like his New Wave contemporaries, Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality", which "emphasized craft over innovation, privileged established directors over new directors, and preferred the great works of the past to experimentation." As a result of such argument, he and like-minded critics started to make their own films. Many of Godard's films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. In 1964, Godard described his and his colleagues' impact: "We barged into the cinema like cavemen into the Versailles of Louis XV." He is often considered the most radical French filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s; his approach in film conventions, politics and philosophies made him arguably the most influential director of the French New Wave. Along with showing knowledge of film history through homages and references, several of his films expressed his political views; he was an avid reader of existential and Marxist philosophy. Since the New Wave, his politics have been much less radical and his recent films are about representation and human conflict from a humanist, and a Marxist perspective.In a 2002 Sight & Sound poll, Godard ranked third in the critics' top-ten directors of all time (which was put together by assembling the directors of the individual films for which the critics voted). He is said to have "created one of the largest bodies of critical analysis of any filmmaker since the mid-twentieth century." He and his work have been central to narrative theory and have "challenged both commercial narrative cinema norms and film criticism's vocabulary." In 2010, Godard was awarded an Academy Honorary Award, but did not attend the award ceremony. Godard's films have inspired many directors including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, Steven Soderbergh, D. A. Pennebaker, Robert Altman, Jim Jarmusch, Wong Kar-wai, Wim Wenders, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.From his father, he is the cousin of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, former President of Peru. He has been married twice, to actresses Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky, both of whom starred in several of his films. His collaborations with Karina—which included such critically acclaimed films as Bande à part (1964) and Pierrot le Fou (1965)—was called "arguably the most influential body of work in the history of cinema" by Filmmaker magazine. more…

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