31 May 2017

Redoubtable



Michel Hazanavicius : 2017
Le Redoutable

Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the maker of À bout de souffle, Le Mépris and Pierrot le fou, is idolised by critics and intellectuals. The leading filmmaker of his generation, he is now shooting La Chinoise with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years his junior. They are happy, attractive, in love, they marry. But the film's reception unleashes a profound self-examination in Jean-Luc. The events of May '68 will amplify this process, and the crisis that shakes the filmmaker will transform him profoundly, from a star cineaste to a Maoist artist entirely outside the system, as misunderstood as he is incomprehensible. Michel Hazanavicius's feature premiered in competition at Festival de Cannes 2017.

No comments:

Post a Comment