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King Lear (English version)
Location
Main screening room
Date
March 15th, 2023
Duration
90 min
Cycle
Godard, reviens

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.

King Lear
Directed by
Jean-Luc Godard
Language
English
Actors
Woody Allen, Freddy Buache, Léos Carax
Origins
USA
Year
1987
Duration
90 min
Genre
Drama, Comedy
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

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.

King Lear

Jean-Luc Godard

Born in Paris in 1930, Jean-Luc Godard grew up on the shores of Lake Geneva, and his first passion was 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. At the beginning of the 1950s, he attended the Ciné-club du Quartier Latin (Cinema club of the Latin Quarter) where he met Maurice Schérer (soon to be Eric 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 A bout de souffle in 1960, which contributed to the launch of the French New Wave. He will not stop shooting until the 2010s, constituting over the decades an exploratory work that has always pushed the boundaries of cinema.

Photo: ©Bertrand Carrière | Collections de la Cinémathèque québécoise

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About Jean-Luc Godard
Filmography
Jean-Luc Godard en 9 minutes - Blow Up - ARTE
Jean-Luc Godard "Le possible n'est pas impossible" chez Thierry Ardisson | INA Arditube
Le réalisateur Jean-Luc Godard est mort - 28 minutes - ARTE
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