The Three Disasters + Goodbye to Language (3D)
We are welcoming Fabrice Aragno, a filmmaker and Jean-Luc Godard's principal collaborator over the past twenty years. This event offers a unique opportunity, not only to engage with Aragno, but also to discover the French New Wave pioneer’s final, yet unreleased films in Montreal.
Presented by Fabrice Aragno, Jean-Luc Godard's collaborator
Winner of the Jury Prize and the Palm Dog - Special Jury Prize, 2014 Cannes Film Festival
The Three Disasters were produced at the request of the city of Guimarães, Portugal, on the occasion of its designation as European Capital of Culture in 2012. This work was included in the omnibus film 3x3D, which also features segments by Edgar Pêra and Peter Greenaway. In the essayistic style familiar to some of his films, Godard experiments with 3D just before directing Goodbye to Language.
The idea is simple. A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town and country. The seasons pass. The man and woman meet again. The dog finds itself between them. The other is in one, the one is in the other and they are three. The former husband shatters everything. A second film begins. The same as the first, and yet not. From the human race we pass to metaphor. This ends in barking and a baby's cries.
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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La veille de sa mort volontaire, Jean-Luc Godard a bouclé un court métrage inédit de 18 minutes que la Cinémathèque est heureuse de présenter en première québécoise. Intitulé Scénarios (2024), il sera suivi du moyen métrage Exposé du film annonce du film « Scénario » (2024), tourné en 2021, dans lequel Godard expose son projet. À cette occasion, nous recevrons Fabrice Aragno, collaborateur du cinéaste depuis Notre musique (2004), et présenterons en 3D Adieu au langage (2014), œuvre majeure de sa période expérimentale, ainsi que le court métrage Les trois désastres (2013).
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