Liberté et Patrie: a short film by Jean-Luc Godard.
The title of this twenty-minute video by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, “Freedom and Fatherland,” is the official slogan of the Canton de Vaud, in Switzerland, where the filmmakers live and grew up. To fulfill their commission from a Swiss cultural festival, they adapted a great Swiss novel, “Aimé Pache, Painter from the Vaud,” by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, from 1911 (about a local artist who goes to Paris for his education and then returns home) and extruded its autobiographical analogies to Godard’s own life and work. Using a choice set of clips from Godard’s films to coincide with events from the painter’s life, verbal references to modern times and to Godard’s own—Sartre, the late nineteen-sixties, the cinema—and images of the Swiss terrain, which plays a decisive role in the work of Pache, Godard, and Miéville (an important filmmaker in her own right), they produce the effect of mirrors within mirrors. Art is endowed with the immediate personal intensity of lived experience, and a life’s memory emerges, with exemplary pathos, as a wondrous fiction. This compact crystallization of fable and reality is as ample as a full-length feature.
—Richard Brody of The New Yorker
41 Notes/ Hide
-
anyothercityintheworld likes this
-
subjectpermanence likes this
-
dfvgkmng2 reblogged this from film-dot-com
-
boyonjourney likes this
-
basava reblogged this from film-dot-com and added:
Liberté et Patrie: a short film by Jean-Luc Godard. The title of this twenty-minute video by Jean-Luc Godard and...
-
sancho108 reblogged this from film-dot-com
-
waltdisneywithblood likes this
-
isegoing likes this
-
thestanceradness reblogged this from lettertojane
-
audiokayness likes this
-
tentativelytitled likes this
-
pastepaste likes this
-
detectivemusic reblogged this from film-dot-com
-
detectivemusic likes this
-
byrdcaleb likes this
-
thebadmonkey likes this
-
dreamkidastronaut likes this
-
mutations likes this
-
markeejazpard likes this
-
restinoize reblogged this from film-dot-com
-
thefurrawn likes this
-
cthulucism likes this
-
cthulucism reblogged this from film-dot-com
-
meltedspinningplastic likes this
-
itaintcoca-colaitsrice likes this
-
wandrlust likes this
-
mayhap likes this
-
givemelyricismorgivemedeath likes this
-
hymntobeauty likes this
-
hereiswhereiloveyou likes this
-
timetoputonashow reblogged this from film-dot-com
-
timetoputonashow likes this
-
film-dot-com reblogged this from lettertojane
-
yourfavoritevalentine likes this
-
aloadofoldtat likes this
-
filosofies likes this
-
acathedral likes this
-
lettertojane reblogged this from cinephilearchive
-
lettertojane likes this
-
cinephilearchive reblogged this from a-bittersweet-life
-
a-bittersweet-life posted this
