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Tribute to Jean-Luc Godard

5 films

Tribute in 5 films to director Jean-Luc Godard, who died recently, who embodied the New Wave and marked the 7th art by breaking codes and reinventing forms.

Tribute to Jean-Luc Godard
  • Drama, Classics
  • 1960
  • France
  • 1h30
by Jean-Luc Godard

Michel Poiccard steals a car in Marseille and shoots a policeman on the side of the road. In Paris, he meets Patricia, a young American girl who sells the New York Herald Tribune on the Champs Elysées. She takes him in, they wander from one bank to the other, he looks for money from his old friends. The police hunt him down, Patricia turns him in. Michel Poiccard is shot dead in a street in Montparnasse.

  • Literary adaptation, Drama, Classics
  • 1963
  • France, Italy
  • 1h50
by Jean-Luc Godard

American film producer Jeremy Prokosch hires respected Austrian director Fritz Lang to direct a film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. Dissatisfied with Lang's treatment of the material as an art film, Prokosch hires Paul Javal, a novelist and playwright, to rework the script. The conflict between artistic expression and commercial opportunity parallels Paul's sudden estrangement from his wife Camille Javal , who becomes aloof with Paul after being left alone with Prokosch, a millionaire playboy.

  • Classics, Fantasy and science fiction, Thriller
  • 1965
  • France
  • 1h50
by Jean-Luc Godard

In an era after the 1960s, the authorities of the "outer planets" sent the famous secret agent Lemmy Caution on a mission to Alphaville, a dehumanized city a few light years away from Earth. Caution is in charge of neutralizing Professor von Braun, the almighty master of Alphaville, who has abolished human feelings there. A computer, Alpha 60, governs the entire city. A message from Dickson, an ex-secret agent, orders Lemmy to "destroy Alpha 60 and save those who are crying". But he is kidnapped, interrogated by Alpha 60 and sentenced to death...

  • Drama, Literary adaptation, Classics
  • 1965
  • France
  • 1h52
  • expired rights
by Jean-Luc Godard

Ferdinand Griffon is unhappily married and has been recently fired from his job at a TV broadcasting company. After attending a mindless party full of shallow discussions in Paris, he feels a need to escape and decides to run away with his baby-sitter, an ex-girlfriend, Marianne Renoir, leaving his wife and children and bourgeois lifestyle. Following Marianne into her apartment and finding a corpse, Ferdinand soon discovers that Marianne is being chased by Algerian gangsters, two of whom they barely escape.

  • Comedy-drama, Classics
  • 1967
  • France
  • 1h30
by Jean-Luc Godard

In an apartment whose walls are covered with little red books, young people study Marxist-Leninist thought. Their leader, Véronique, proposes to the group the assassination of a personality. Directed one year before the events of May 68, the Chinese woman is considered a prophetic film.

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