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Passion

Passion

Jean-Luc Godard 1982 1h 27m 7.0

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.

Sauve qui peut (la vie)

Sauve qui peut (la vie)

Jean-Luc Godard 1980 1h 27m 6.5

A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker.

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin 1972 52m

The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was staged.

France/tour/détour/deux/enfants

France/tour/détour/deux/enfants

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville 1979 5h 12m

In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la France par deux enfants — Godard and Miéville take a detour through the everyday lives of two children in contemporary France.

Ici et ailleurs

Ici et ailleurs

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville 1976 55m

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a French family watching television at home. Originally shot by the Dziga Vertov Group as a film on Palestinian freedom fighters, Godard later reworked the material alongside Anne-Marie Miéville.

Numéro deux

Numéro deux

Jean-Luc Godard 1975 1h 28m

Jean-Luc Godard mixes video and film in his Grenoble studio, discussing how he secured funding for the film. The action unfolds on two monitors, as a young working-class couple lives in a claustrophobic, high-rise apartment complex and marital discord is set off by the wife’s infidelity.