King Lear
Between the end of the 1970s and the middle of the 1990s, Jean-Luc Godard directed many films. Short films, essay films, commercials, feature films. Above all, he once again makes a pact with the traditional production system and the stars (Johnny Hallyday, the Rita Mitsouko, Nathalie Baye, Molly Ringwald, Isabelle Huppert)... Godard returns but defies all the expectations and leads the game.
The writer Norman Mailer has to write a new version of King Lear by William Shakespeare. The story takes place after the Chernobyl disaster, life has returned to normal, but art no longer exists. William Shakespeare junior, fifth of the name, then embarks on a search for missing works.
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.
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