WAITING FOR GODARD

A Woman is a Woman

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GODARD DIRECTS:

Le Petit Soldat 

“In 1959, Jean-Luc Godard attempted to create publicity for his forthcoming film by publishing a gag advertisement. Written in the style of a classified ad, it read: Jean-Luc Godard, who has completed ‘Breathless’ and is preparing ‘Le Petit Soldat’, seeks young woman between 18 & 27 to make her both his actress and his friend."

-Richard Brody: excerpt from; Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard 

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 Breathless 

Fifty years of Breathless is of course remarkable, but I think the fact that we’re all still breathing is just as remarkable.I am 86 years old now but I remember working on the film very clearly. I had no idea at the time that 50 years afterwards I would still be talking about it, but I did know that it was a very different film, that we were doing something that had never really been done or seen in cinema before. I didn’t know it would work, though.

- Cinematographer Raoul Coutard

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 Pierrot Le Fou

Marianne: Look at the last page, there's a little poem about you. It's by me.
Ferdinard: Tender... and cruel... real... and surreal... terrifying... and funny nocturnal... and diurnal usual... and unusual handsome as anyone
Marianne: Pierrot le Fou !
Ferdinard: My name is Ferdinard. I have told you often enough. Christ almighty ! You bore me to death !

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Masculin Feminin: 15 Faits Precis :

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Vivre Sa Vie

Nana: Shouldn't love be the only truth?
The Philosopher: For that, love would always have to be true.

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"When France celebrates "the 100th Anniversary of cinema", what is actually being celebrated is the 100th anniversary of the first performance in front of a paying audience . I think it is wonderful to pay three, ten, twenty dollars to see something on a wide screen. Then make it clear that that's the marvel you're celebrating. Whereas there is another wonder, and that's the work itself. But maybe people have a lesser need of wonderment in their lives; maybe wars on television are enough for them."

-Jean Luc Godard