Mon 28 Nov - Thu 22 Jun

Jean-Luc Godard: Perspectives

Festivals & Series

With a career spanning over 60 years and some 140 films, from the iconic works of the New Wave to the cinema essays he became known for, Jean-Luc Godard, who passed away in September 2022, was the epitome of cinema.

With this season, Ciné Lumière aims to offer a critical perspective to different periods of Godard’s filmmaking, with talks by prominent scholars and Godard specialists, to help navigate this huge, at times difficult, and often joyful body of work. We’ll also explore his wide and ongoing influence on contemporary filmmakers, artists and fashion designers.

Over the years, Godard has created his own public persona, his sole name became a mythology in itself. He has now left us with his many films to discover or watch again, as a testimony to the strength of cinema and the moving image.

Uncompromising, formidable, Godard has left a rich, multiple and multiform body of work and has also generated his own sea of publications. From his association to the creation of what became known as the ‘cinéma d’auteur’, his many encounters often followed by radical breaks, his love and profound knowledge of film history, his undying curiosity for new technologies of the image, his endless play with words and language, as well as his strong, often total political commitments, his complex view of the world transpires in his critical essays and films.

Picture: © Philippe Doumic/Unifrance

Programme

Bande à part

Sun 11 - Tue 20 Dec

Jean-Luc Godard: Perspectives

Classics, Festivals & Series

Breathless

Tue 13 Dec - Fri 20 Jan

Jean-Luc Godard: Perspectives

Classics, Festivals & Series, Special Screenings

Vivre sa vie

Mon 9 - Thu 12 Jan

Jean-Luc Godard: Perspectives

Classics, Festivals & Series

Weekend

Fri 20 - Thu 26 Jan

Jean-Luc Godard: Perspectives

Classics, Festivals & Series

King Lear

Wed 25 Jan

+ intro by Prof. Garin Dowd on 25 Jan

Jean-Luc Godard: Perspectives

Classics, Festivals & Series, Special Screenings

Jean-Luc Godard: Is Everyone Equal Before Images?

Sat 4 Feb

Jean-Luc Godard: Perspectives

Classics, Festivals & Series, Special Screenings

Pierrot le fou

Sat 11 Feb

Jean-Luc Godard: Perspectives

Classics, Festivals & Series

Every Man for Himself

Sun 12 - Tue 14 Feb

Jean-Luc Godard: Perspectives

Classics, Festivals & Series

Film Socialisme

Sun 19 - Tue 21 Feb

Jean-Luc Godard: Perspectives

Classics, Festivals & Series

Goodbye to Language

Sun 26 Feb - Sun 1 Mar

Jean-Luc Godard: Perspectives

Classics

The Image Book

Sun 12 - Wed 15 Mar

Jean-Luc Godard: Perspectives, Mois de la Francophonie 2023

Classics, Festivals & Series

Alphaville

Sun 11 - Tue 20 Jun

Jean-Luc Godard: Perspectives, Technology on Screen

Classics, Festivals & Series

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