Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: "Phony Wars"
From Breathless (1960) all the way to The Image Book in 2018, Jean-Luc Godard remained a cinematic revolutionary throughout his over 60-year career. He searched, experimented with narrative and imagery, provoked, without paying heed to audience expectations and trends (although he knew how to leverage them for his own purposes). He loved cinema and made it the substance of his life. Trailer... is a 20-minute collage of images, titles, contexts, and monologues is the quintessence of the Frenchman's later works It is an open treasure trove of ideas, an intellectual sketchbook in which Godard gathered inspirations for his next film. As we know, that film will never come to be, but watching this is great way to farewell to the master.
Jean-Luc Godard
(1930-2022) Jean Luc-Godard was the father of film postmodernism as well as a radical, uncompromising avant-garde director. His feature debut, Breathless (1959), is believed to be the best New Wave film. Godard deconstructed old forms: demolishing grammar, style and existing conventions of film language, rejecting traditional rules for narration, filming with a hand-held, moving camera against the scenery of natural interiors and spaces. Over the years, cinema became for Godard an instrument serving not only to examine and present the world, but also to impact human consciousness. Politically radical, he twisted film posters, limited his activity to TV movies, started up his own studio and explored the possibilities inherent in video technology. In the early 1980s he returned to cinema, only to abandon stories in favour of the essay film. Godard was the subject of a retrospective at 2010 New Horizons.
Selected filmography
1960 Do utraty tchu / À bout de souffle / Breathless
1961 Kobieta jest kobietą / Une femme est une femme / A Woman Is a Woman
1962 Żyć własnym życiem / Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux / My Life to Live
1965 Alphaville
1966 Męski-żeński: 15 scen z życia / Masculin, féminin: 15 faits précis / Masculine, Feminine: In 15 Acts
1990 Nouvelle Vague / New Wave
1998 Histoire(s) du cinema: La monnaie l’absolu (z cyklu: Historia francuskiego kina)
2001 Pochwała miłości / Eloge de l’amour / In Praise of Love
2004 Nasza muzyka / Notre musique / Our Music
2010 Film Socialisme / Socialism
2018 Imaginacje / Le livre d'image / The Image Book