Every Man for Himself

Every Man for Himself

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

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First Name: Carmen

First Name: Carmen

The protagonist is Carmen X, a sexy female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his...

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After the Reconciliation

After the Reconciliation

An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation about love and the meaning of life.

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Godard's Passion

Godard's Passion

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...

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Hail Mary

Hail Mary

A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

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Tout Va Bien

Tout Va Bien

A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.

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Detective

Detective

Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with...

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Our Music

Our Music

A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on...

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Here and Elsewhere

Here and Elsewhere

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a French family watching television at home...

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2 x 50 Years of French Cinema

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema

At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated...

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Nouvelle Vague

Nouvelle Vague

Composed entirely of literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, the loose narrative concerns a drifter...

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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene...

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How's It Going?

How's It Going?

During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist activist discuss how to present their information,...

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Number Two

Number Two

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...

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Against Oblivion

Against Oblivion

Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a...

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France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children

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...

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L'amour des femmes

L'amour des femmes

Although there are women in the lives of the three main protagonists -- a middle-aged architect, his construction designer, and a journalist -- the...

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Liberty and Homeland

Liberty and Homeland

The title of this twenty-minute video by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, “Freedom and Fatherland,” is the official slogan of the Canton de...

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In the Darkness of Time

In the Darkness of Time

Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du temps" functions as a Pandora’s box which hides all...

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L'Enfance de l'art

L'Enfance de l'art

Children living and playing in a war zone are touched by violence. Part of How Are the Kids? (1990), a UNICEF-sponsored six-film anthology...

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