Godard´s Socialisme at Cannes Film Festival by Zuzana Zelenakova

Jjean-Luc Godard is an icon not only in French film industry, his art is highly acclaimed all around the world. French and Swiss filmmaker was one of the pioneers of French New Wave that originated in the 1950s and was influenced by Italian Neorealism and Hollywood cinema. Godard´s first major movie was Breathless starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. As most of his other creations also this one contains lot of film references, for example to the films of Ingmar Bergman, Samuel Fuller and others. He also often quotes from existentialism and Marxism. Vivre sa vie, Les Carabiniers, La Chinoise and Alphaville belong to his most famous movies. "I've always been int! erested in technique, not in art for technique's sake. In the last installments of "History of Cinema", I keep saying - or often have it said - that cinema is neither an art nor a technique, but a mystery. That's what differentiates it from painting, literature or music, all arts when undertaken by artists. Cinema is close to a religion. It is somewhat an act of faith, it is immediately perceivable, through photography, or a certain relationship between man and the world - is the world the work of man or vice-versa? I don't know. The two go together. (...) One could say television has 'un-taught' us to see. Television manufactures a few memories, but cinema - as it should have been - creates memory, i.e. the possibility of memory,“ said Godard once on film technique and video. His latest film Socialisme was submitted to the 63rd Cannes Film festival and will be screened in the Un Certain Regard section. The cast includes French philosopher Alain Badiou and American mu! sicians Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye. Most of the film will take! place o n a cruise ship sailing around the Mediterranean Sea. Godard has already uploaded six separate trailers for Socialisme onto YouTube. The trailers vary in length from 1:31-4:29.

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