Un films for cinephiles. Because it tells, in detail, day by day, how a film has been made that changed the history of cinema. But, definitely, a movie for everyone. Because it is the report of an adventure. A declaration of love. Because what else can push a Houston director, Texasto embark in a company that in the past had recorded sound failures (the French Michael Hazanavicius and his malicious My Godard2017 film)?
Nouvelle vague by Richard Linklater
Nouvelle vague By Richard Linklater is a movie about a movie and not just any movie. Until the last breath It’s Jean-Luc Godard’s first film, The man who in the history of cinema marks the watershed between a first and a then. AND Until the last breathof all the cinema that Jlg has made it then is The film that changed the rules of the game.
It starts with the triumph of Truffaut and his own 400 strokes. Jean Cocteau, one of the spiritual fathers of young Turks who animated the editorial staff of Cahiers du Cinemawhisper in the director’s ear: «Never take cinema as a pastime. Cinema is a priesthood ». Godard is 25 years old and has seen all his Scripture and critics companions (Truffaut, Chabrol, Rivette, Rohmer) make the transition to the direction. He has only one short film (but shot with Jean-Paul Belmondo).
Guillaume Marbeck/Jean-Luc Godard and Richard Linklater.
And it is Bebèl that Godard will convene when the producer Georges de Beauregard will offer him a script by Truffaut (which Godard will see amply, Including the ending: Truffaut had not foreseen the death of the protagonist). Belmondo (Aubry Dullin) on that set it matters above all to have fun. Jean Seberg (Zoey Deutch)married to the Frenchman François Moreuil, and back from a non -happy experience with eight Preminger, instead he wants certainties: those that every actress expects from his author. A processing plan, a script, jokes, direction indications.
Godard does not see it like this: the processing plan is done at the moment and changes without notice, The jokes are not written, the scenes often turn in the absence of authorization and with artifices of all kinds (An post cart in which to hide the director of photography in order to film passers -by without even realizing it: there was no privacy law, there was no infinite and mortal bureaucracy that today unhappy the relationships between those who filma and who is filmed), and last but not least, to be fast and follow the inspiration of the moment, Godard chooses to use A light camera, but technically outdated: the sound is not synchronizedthe actors can say what they want (especially when they are resumed from behind), they will be dubbed for finished films.
The 20 days of Godard’s war
Nouvelle vague tells a war, the one that the certain author of his own idea and perhaps even a little already aware of his own destinyhires with the whole world. In those 20 days that will make the story. Against the manufacturer with whom he even comes to his hands (only to declare, to the finished film, not to conceive to work with someone who is not also a friend), against Seberg who, convinced that he had driven out in a trouble, counts the days that separate it from the end of the filming, against part of the troupe that At each bizarre of the author he wonders if he ever ever those incomprehensible sequences And, apparently impossible to assemble, they will never become a film.
Nouvelle vague is a Perfect Festival movie (Ideal programming in the middle of the event when the senselessness of the large cannic car shows itself with all its evidence, it is a film that helps to get back on track). And it is also a film that every cinema student should see, but it is not only for professionals. Anyone who wants to see Discover the mystery that is hidden behind the birth of a masterpiece (the film is rather explicit), but also to decide how it can be done (and if it is legitimate, but of course it is!) A shooting a movie on an author in the style of that author (Nouvelle vague It is shot in black and white, the format is 4/3, square, the duration of the 1960 film, the protagonists are abundantly abundantly to the actors of the time, immediately an Oscar for the casting!).
A declaration of love or counterfeiting?
For Libération The film is “the counterfeiting of a” Making of “shot 65 years later”. Linklater simply explains that “it is the work that justifies everything”. And do with your head and hands a film, then an act of madness (in a country where the rules of cinema are different and in a language that the director probably understands little), on A supreme act of madness (then entered the legend) It deserves all respect for the world.
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