Jean-Luc Godard — Playwright (29)

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The Wild Palms (2025) TMDB
The Wild Palms
Puts into practice a radical Godardian proposition: the screening of his Made in USA (1966) and 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle (Two or Three Things I Know About Her, 1966) as a single work, with their reels and narratives intertwined. In 1967, having set aside the idea of adapting The Wild Palms, Godard proposed instead projecting his two very different most recent features, which he had shot back-to-back for separate producers, as an integrated work. As Richard Roud reported, what Godard wanted was to have them shown together, ‘first a reel of Made in USA, then a reel of Two or Three Things I Know About Her, then a reel of Made in USA, etc., just as Faulkner mixed two stories in The Wild Palms. That would be his adaptation of the novel.’

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France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children (1979) TMDB
France/tour/détour/deux/enfants
other title: France/tour/détour/deux/enfants
In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la France par deux enfants — Godard and Miéville take a detour through the everyday lives of two children in contemporary France.

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories (1989) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Histoire(s) du cinéma 1a : toutes les histoires
other title: Histoire(s) du cinéma 1a : toutes les histoires / Histoire(s) du cinéma 1a: todas las historias
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.

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The Married Woman (1964)
Une femme mariée: Suite de fragments d'un film tourné en 1964
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Macha Méril / Bernard Noël …
other title: Una donna sposata / En gift kvinde …
A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.

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Film Socialisme (2010) IMDb TMDB
Film Socialisme
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Catherine Tanvier / Christian Sinniger …
other title: Filme Socialismo
A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.

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Love and Anger (1969)
Amore e rabbia
director: Marco Bellocchio / Bernardo Bertolucci … actor: Tom Baker / Julian Beck …
other title: Amore e rabbia / Amor e Raiva …
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.

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Band of Outsiders (1964)
Bande à part
★ 7.8 (8 ratings) director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Anna Karina / Claude Brasseur …
other title: Bando à Parte / Die Außenseiterbande …
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory — which could be just what they want.

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In Praise of Love (2001)
Éloge de l'amour
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Bruno Putzulu / Cécile Camp …
other title: Auf die Liebe / Éloge de l'amour …
Someone we hear talking — but whom we do not see — speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.

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Hail Mary (1985)
Je vous salue, Marie
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Myriem Roussel / Thierry Rode …
other title: Eu vos Saúdo, Maria / Maria und Joseph …
A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

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Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux (2014) WikiData IMDb Douban
Khan Khanne, sélection naturelle
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Jean-Luc Godard
other title: Khan Khanne, sélection naturelle
Rather than writing a simple letter to explain his absence from the press conference for his latest Cannes entry, "Goodbye to Language," at the Cannes Film Festival, instead, legendary filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard created a video "Letter in motion to (Cannes president) Gilles Jacob and (artistic director) Thierry Fremaux." The video intercuts from Godard speaking cryptically about his "path" to key scenes from Godard classics such as "Alphaville" and "King Lear" with Burgess Meredith and Molly Ringwald, and quotes poet Jacques Prevert and philosopher Hannah Arendt.

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Lettre à Jane (1974)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
director: Jean-Luc Godard / Jean-Pierre Gorin actor: Jane Fonda / Jean-Luc Godard …
other title: Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was staged.

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Notre Musique (2004) WikiData IMDb Douban NeoDB
Notre musique
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Sarah Adler / Nade Dieu …
other title: A Nossa Música / Notre musique …
A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war itself.

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Six in Paris (1965)
Paris vu par…
other title: Parigi di notte / Paris vu par… …
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.