Movie Talk - Jean-Luc Godard
Description
Film critics discuss Jean-Luc Godards career as a pioneering film maker of the ‘new wave’ French film movement beginning in the 1960's, the add that he is arguably the most influential French Film maker of the post-war era. Anna Karina his muse and wife for a time speaks about what it was like to film with Godard, she loved the way he worked, 'it was more complicated but always natural and fun.' The programme focuses on his film Alphaville 1965 a Sci-Fi/Noir movie starring Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina. An atmospheric, mysterious picture that was beautifully shot and edited, with the script deliberately minimal leaving space for improvisation. Godard liked to experiment with new sounds, typography and jump cuts. It stands alone as the most significant of the Sci-Fi movie genre. Pierrot Le Fou 1965 is a nod to an American road movie, also starring Anna Karina now alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo. They play a couple in love and on the run. It’s a visual adventure, his most ‘likeable and humorous’. The film is a love letter to Anna Karina his soon to be ex-wife, shot against the stunning back drop of the French Riviera, it has many characteristics of the then dominant pop art movement. Godard also knew how to twist and change a film through editing, he was fascinated by every aspect of film making. A director so ahead of his time, he is described by the critics as cool, post modern and unorthodox.