Entretien entre Serge Daney et Jean-Luc Godard
In 1978, Jean-Luc Godard was invited by Serge Losique at Concordia University to teach a course about the history of cinema. This was a crucial moment in the Franco-Swiss filmmaker's career, when, after much experimentation, he was about to return, in his own way and in appearance, to a more traditional form of cinema.
Fixed frame: Jean-Luc Godard in left foreground, Serge Daney in center middleground. The two talk for two hours about Histoire(s) du cinéma, a project Godard is beginning at the time.
Jean-Luc Godard
Born in Paris in 1930, Jean-Luc Godard grew up on the shores of Lake Geneva, initially developing a passion for painting. After the Second World War, which he spent in Switzerland, his family sent him to study in Paris, but Godard mainly attended film clubs and the Cinémathèque française. In the early 1950s, he became involved with the Ciné-club du Quartier Latin where he met Maurice Schérer (soon to be Éric Rohmer), François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette, among others, with whom he took his first steps as a critic and embarked on the adventure of the Cahiers du cinéma. After directing a few short films, he moved on to feature films in the wake of François Truffaut by directing Beathless (À bout de souffle) in 1960, a film that helped launch the French New Wave. He will not stop shooting until the 2010s, creating an exploratory body of work that has always pushed the boundaries of cinema.
Photo: ©Bertrand Carrière | Collections de la Cinémathèque québécoise
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