Jean-Luc GodardFilmography

Moments choisis des histoire(s) du cinema

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Cinematic visionary and provocateur Jean-Luc Godard offers a typically challenging look at his favorite creative medium in the wake of the 20th Century in this ambitious blend of film, video, and collage. Moments Choisis des Histoire(s) du Cinema serves as both a history and critical examination Read More

Notre Musique

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Jean-Luc Godard, Ronny Kramer, Georges Aguilar

Synopsis: Legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once again poses a number of provocative questions about art, politics, and the nexus point between them in this drama in three acts, "Hell," "Purgatory," and "Paradise." After a collage of film clips illustrate a meditation on the nature of war and Read More

Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

Marguerite, telle qu'en elle-meme

Actors: Jeanne Balibar, Marguerite Duras, Jean-Luc Godard

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

Crew: Director

Actors: Amit Arroz, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Mark Long, Alexandra Staden, Dominic West

Synopsis: Eight master directors of world cinema combine forces for this omnibus film that focuses cumulatively on the subject of time. Bookended by cello interludes, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello presents just one parameter to each of its filmmakers: no final entry can be more or less than ten minutes long. Read More

In Praise of Love

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy

Synopsis: Cinematic iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard returns to the front ranks of contemporary filmmaking while embracing the digital video revolution (no great surprise, given his eager and early embrace of video technology in the 1970s) with this drama. In the first part of the film, shot on 35 mm Read More

Apres La Reconciliation

Actors: Claude Perron, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jacques Spiesser, Jean-Luc Godard

Synopsis: Four people discuss love and life, learning (and revealing) more about each other than they ever imagined in this intimate drama from director Anne-Marie Mieville. A middle-aged woman (Mieville) and her younger, attractive friend Cathos (Claude Perron) return home from an evening out with elderly Read More

Berlin-Cinema (Titre Provisoire)

Actors: Wim Wenders, Thomas, Jean-Luc Godard, Rüdiger Vogler

Synopsis: Samira Gloor-Fadel debuts with this strikingly unorthodox documentary featuring two of cinema's greatest intellectuals (Wim Wenders and Jean Luc Godard) bouncing a flurry of illuminating thoughts and half-formed ideas about time, space, and the nature of cinema. The conversation is never depicted Read More

The Old Place: Small Notes Regarding the Arts at Fall of 20th Century

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Nous Sommes Tous Encore Ici

Actors: Aurore Clément, Jean-Luc Godard, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: Especially made for fans of arthouse fare, this intellectually challenging work from writer/director Anne-Marie Mieville offers a heady mixture of ancient and modern philosophical conversation and humor. The film is comprised of three segments. The first is an updated rendition of Plato's Read More

3A: La Monnaie De L'Absolu; 4A: Le controle De L'Univers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The third and fourth installments in French director Jean Luc Godard's free-spirited eight- or ten-part television documentary series continue to examine various aspects of cinema from an iconoclastic master's view. Episode 3A, "La Monnaie de lAbsolu" examines what Godard perceives as the loss of Read More

For Ever Mozart

Crew: Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Madeleine Assas, Bérangère Allaux, Ghalia Lacroix, Vicky Messica

Synopsis: For Ever Mozart is an episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from their friends and relations in France. Director Jean-Luc Godard presents stories about Read More

Deux Fois Cinquante Ans De Cinema Francais

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Internationally renowned French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard offers this documentary for his entry in the British Film Institute commissioned series, "Century of Cinema," designed to be a collection of the personal opinions of renowned international filmmakers concerning the cinema of their native Read More

JLG/JLG -- Autoportrait de Decembre

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Luc Godard

Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard's self-portrait film is a humorous and melancholy reflection on the state of cinema and the world. It is not an autobiography -Godard does not recount the story of his life, but he uses the film to present himself the way a painter would in a self-portrait. Instead of presenting a Read More

Hélas Pour Moi

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Laurence Masliah, Bernard Verley

Synopsis: Hélas pour moi is the story of journalist Abraham Klimt (Bernard Verley)'s investigation of a case of divine possession. In 1989 God enters the body of filmmaker Simon Donnadieu (Gérard Depardieu). When Simon returns home, his wife Rachel (Laurence Masliah) realizes something is amiss but sticks Read More

Les Enfants Jouent à la Russie

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Luc Godard

Synopsis: This documentary from esteemed filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard is a collage of film clips from some of Russia's greatest directors ranging from Eisenstein to Tarkovsky. Also included are actors, including Godard, who plays Dostoyevsky's Idiot, reciting scenes from Chekhov, and from Russian literature. Read More

Contre L'Oubli

Crew: Director

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sami Frey

Synopsis: Amnesty International produced this film, which features more than two dozen greats of French cinema making pleas for the lives of political prisoners around the world. Each filmmaker speaks passionately on behalf of an individual whose life has been warped by political intolerance, imprisonment Read More

Allemagne Annee 90 Neuf Zero

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Hanns Zischler, Claudia Michelsen, André S. Labarthe

Synopsis: Germany Year Nine Zero follows an old spy's journey back to France from the east. Since the Cold War has ended the spy is unclear about who his enemies are, and he doesn't know what to do with himself. Jean-Luc Godard's film is a series of scenes that present his thoughts on European unification Read More

Nouvelle Vague

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Roland Amstutz, Laurence Côte

Synopsis: Nouvelle Vague marks the beginning of a period in Jean-Luc Godard's career in which he made films that looked back on his previous work. In these retrospective films, Godard asked himself whether it is possible to continue as a film director under the conditions imposed by international commercial Read More

Aria

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Theresa Russell, Nicola Swain, Jack Kyle, Buck Henry, Marianne McLoughlin, Julie Hagerty, Marion Peterson, Tilda Swinton

Synopsis: An international collection of well-known directors contributed to this compilation film, each fashioning a short film inspired by an aria from a famous opera. The approaches vary broadly, from the playful abstraction of Jean-Luc Godard's segment, which illustrates Armide with exercising Read More

King Lear

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Peter Sellars, Molly Ringwald, Jean-Luc Godard, Woody Allen

Synopsis: Two highly talented and innovative directors -- filmdom's Jean-Luc Godard and the theatre world's Peter Sellars -- join forces in this unusual (to say the least) slant on Shakespeare's King Lear. This offbeat adaptation gives the viewer a postmodern taste of Shakespeare through the eyes of a Read More

Soigne Ta Droite

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Villeret, François Perier, Les Rita Mitsouko, Jane Birkin, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard wrote, directed, and starred in this offbeat comedy. He appears as a bumbling cinematographer who drops film cannisters as he rushes to a screening, and he and others board a plane helmed by a pilot who is reading a self-help book about suicide. A philosophical narration Read More

Grandeur et Décadence D'Un Petit Commerce De Cinema

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Marie Valera

Synopsis: Director Jean-Luc Godard pokes fun at the follies and injustices of small-time filmmaking in this drama-comedy about two apparent has-beens who are trying their best to get together the funds and the cast for a last, desperate bid for cinematic fame and fortune. The duo (Jean-Claude Mocky and Jean-Pierre Leaud Read More

Soft and Hard

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Originally produced for British TV, Jean-Luc Godard's Soft and Hard costars Godard and his longtime collaborator Anne-Marie Mieville. In an experimental, free-form manner, Godard sets about to show how the average public has been affected by the Media, and vice-versa. Godard and Mieville play a Read More

Hail Mary

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Juliette Binoche, Manon Anderson

Synopsis: Je vous salue Marie is Jean-Luc Godard's first sustained examination of modern spiritual life. This complex episodic film parallels the story of a contemporary Joseph (Theirry Rode) and Mary (Myriem Roussel) with that of a science class studying the origins of life on earth. Joseph is a cab driver Read More

Room 666

Actors: Jean-Luc Godard, Steven Spielberg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Synopsis: In this unusual documentary based on a series of identical questions addressed to world-famous directors such as Werner Herzog, Steven Spielberg, and Jean-Luc Godard, director Wim Wenders placed each of his colleagues one-by-one in a single room, gave them one reel (11 minutes) of time to look Read More

Détective

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Nathalie Baye, Johnny Hallyday, Laurent Terzieff, Stephane Ferrara, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis: After several years of making films to please only himself, French director Jean-Luc Godard once more invites the audience to the party with The Detective. Not that there's anything so blase as a linear plot or appealing characters, but at least some of Godard's isolated vignettes are accessible Read More

First Name: Carmen

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent, Jean-Luc Godard

Synopsis: First Name: Carmen tells the parallel stories of a quartet rehearsing Beethoven and a group of young people robbing a bank, supposedly to get the funds to make a film. Director Jean-Luc Godard attempts to make a film that resembles a string quartet, each of whose parts serves an abstract whole. Read More

Scénario Du Film Passion

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Produced for French television, Scenario du Film Passion is a unique glimpse into Jean-Luc Godard's filmmaking practice as well as a philosophical meditation on the nature of creativity. Like many of the French New Wave directors, Godard has shown a disinclination to work from a script, preferring Read More

Passion

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Jean-Luc Bideau, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: Passion, a major film in Jean-Luc Godard's ongoing investigation of the relations between painting and cinema, uses innovative forms to explore political and economic questions. Jerzy Radziwilowicz plays a director shooting a film whose scenes are all reproductions of paintings by Goya, Valasquez Read More

Lettre A Freddy Buache

Crew: Director

Sauve Qui Peut (la Vie)

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, Roland Amstutz

Synopsis: Sauve Qui Peut (la Vie), a pessimistic but visually stunning film, marks Jean-Luc Godard's return to cinema after having spent the 70s working in video. The film presents a few days in the lives of three people: Paul Godard (Jacques Dutronc ), a television producer; Denise Rimbaud (Nathalie Baye) Read More

Les Cineastes Celebres

Actors: Jean-Luc Godard, Wim Wenders, Emilio Fernández, Joseph Losey

France / Tour / Detour / Deux / Enfants

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A video look at the media and children. The twelve-part series examines how two French schoolchildren are influenced by television and other media. French with English subtitles. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Der Kleine Godard an Das Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film

Actors: Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hark Bohm

Synopsis: Politics within the community of small and independent German filmmakers is the subject of this wry spoof. It chronicles the meetings of an organization which resembles in every way the Kuratorium for Young German Cinema, or the German government board which hands out grants to budding filmmakers. Read More

Six Fois Deux / Sur et Sous La Communication

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An English voice-over is applied to the French dialogue in this investigation of culture and economics. This loosely organized program is a six part series presented by Godard and Mieville. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Ici et Ailleurs

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Initially begun as a documentary about Palestinian revolutionaries, Ici et Ailleurs (in English, Here and Elsewhere) was ultimately transformed into an hour-long filmed essay addressing the relationship between politics and image, the problems of documentary filmmaking, and the danger of media Read More

Comment ça va?

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anne-Marie Miéville

Synopsis: Comment ça va is a troubling examination of the politics of representation by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville. The film, framed as a letter from a communist newspaper editor (M. Marot) to his son, is about the editor's attempt to collaborate with his typist (Anne-Marie Miéville) on a Read More

Numéro Deux

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sandrine Battistella, Pierre Dudry, Alexandre Rignault, Pierre Oudrey, Rachel Stefanopoli

Synopsis: Numéro Deux marks the high point of co-directors Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's experimentation with video. They present a set of scenes from the everyday interactions of a working class family. The body of the film was initially shot on video, then played back on monitors and filmed in Read More

Tout Va Bien

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jane Fonda, Yves Montand, Vittorio Caprioli

Synopsis: After collaborating on a series of small-scale political films under the alias of the Dziga Vertov Group, pioneering French director Jean-Luc Godard and filmmaker and activist Jean-Pierre Gorin attempted to fuse their Maoist theories of revolutionary art with a more accessible structural framework Read More

Letter to Jane

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Letter to Jane consists of a series of still photographs in which filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin read aloud a letter to actress Jane Fonda. The occasion for Godard and Gorin's letter is a widely publicized photograph of Fonda in North Vietnam which caught the filmmakers' eye Read More

One P.M.

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Struggle in Italy

Crew: Director

Vladimir et Rosa

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Anne Wiazemsky, Juliet Berto

Synopsis: This is a somewhat experimental radical-chic film made by director Jean-Luc Godard and the Dziga-Vertov filmmakers cooperative. It depicts a trial resembling that of the "Chicago Eight," in the U.S. in the '60s, and also shows something of the everyday lives of several of the defendants. Another Read More

Vent d'Est

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Allen Midgette

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard makes another foray into Marxist film in this poorly-wrought attempt at a political film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Amore e Rabbia

Crew: Director

Actors: Nino Castelnuovo, Ninetto Davoli, Tom Baker

Synopsis: This obscure film is directed by five well-known cinematographers. "Apathy" is directed by Carlo Lizzani and concerns a New York rape victim whose cries for help fall on deaf ears. Bernardo Bertolucci directs "Agony." Members of the Living Theater mime death scenes. In "The Paper Flower Sequence," Read More

British Sounds

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard made the hour-long 1969 experimental documentary British Sounds also known as See You at Mao for London Weekend TV in 1969. In the opening scene, a ten minute long tracking shot along a Ford factory floor, a narrator reads from The Communist Manifesto. This is followed by a woman Read More

Un Film Comme les Autres

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Sympathy for the Devil

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: The Rolling Stones, Iain Quarrier

Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard's Sympathy for the Devil, also known as One Plus One, uses both documentary and staged sequences, alternating between an inside look at a rock band's recording process and reflections on contemporary politics and aesthetics. One half of the film focuses on the Rolling Stones, as Read More

Le Gai Savoir

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis: This experimental minimalist drama by Jean-Luc Godard is a totally plotless exploration of film language. The setting is a darkened soundstage with only a single light to illuminate two actors who discuss philosophy. The philosophy reflects the director's most radical thoughts about making films. Read More

Weekend

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Valerie Lagrange, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean Eustache, Paul Gégauff

Synopsis: French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Le Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his own country and the perceived imperialism of the United States. Mireille Darc plays the central character, an "average" woman who is systematically radicalized during a Read More

The Oldest Profession

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michele Mercier, Enrico Maria Salerno, Elsa Martinelli, Jeanne Moreau, Gabriele Tinti, Raquel Welch, Gastone Moschin

Synopsis: In this anthology, six French filmmakers each contributed a vignette, offering their take on the history of prostitution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

La Chinoise

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anne Wiazemsky

Synopsis: Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with his swiftly paced satire La Chinoise. Godard's then-wife Anne Wiazemsky plays a philosophy student who commiserates with the four members of her campus Maoist group. They are so Read More

Loin du Vietnam

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Six directors combine efforts for this documentary, a searing anti-American indictment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnes Varda, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc Goddard all direct segments. They are quick to point out that the U.S. is radically divided Read More

Made in USA

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laszlo Szabo, Kyoko Kosaka

Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard directed this brightly colored, pop-art homage to American crime cinema, which somehow finds room for extended commentary on leftist politics and the corrupt nature of advertising. Paula Nelson (Anna Karina) is a mystery woman (Is she a reporter? Perhaps a spy?) who used to be Read More

Lautlose Waffen

Actors: Montgomery Clift, Hardy Kruger, Macha Meril, Roddy McDowall, David Opatoshu

Synopsis: Montgomery Clift made his last screen appearance in this French-produced Cold War thriller, completed shortly before his death. American scientist James Bower (Clift) is approached by CIA agent Adam (Roddy McDowall) who wants him to perform an official mission while visiting East Germany. A Read More

Masculin/Feminin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Michel Debord, Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Duport

Synopsis: Masculine Feminine was Jean-Luc Godard's first (but not his last) foray into the burgeoning "Children of the Sixties" generation -- or, as Godard described it, "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola." Impressionable teenager Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud) tries to make sense of the world by working as an Read More

Two or Three Things I Know About Her

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Raoul J. Lévy

Synopsis: The feminine pronoun in the title of this film from Jean-Luc Godard refers to both a French housewife and the city of Paris, as each are changed in fundamental ways by the growth of consumer culture in Europe. Juliette Janson (Marina Vlady) lives with her husband and two children in a high-rise Read More

Pierrot Le Fou

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders, Raymond Devos, Graziella Galvani

Synopsis: Pierrot le fou (1965) is Jean-Luc Godard's sixth film staring Anna Karina, his first wife. It is the story of Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Marianne (Karina). They meet when Ferdinand's wife hires Marianne as a baby-sitter. As he drives Marianne home, Ferdinand decides to run away with her. Read More

Alphaville

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Laszlo Szabo, Howard Vernon

Synopsis: In Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard fuses a hardboiled detective story with science fiction. Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), a hero Godard borrowed from a series of French adventure films, comes to Alphaville, the capital of a totalitarian state, in order to destroy its leader, an almost-human Read More

Paris vu Par...

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Micheline Dax, Claude Chabrol, Stéphane Audran, Nadine Ballot, Barbara Wilkin, Jean-Michel Rouziere, Jean-Francois Chappey, Joanna Shimkus

Synopsis: A sextet of French filmmakers collaborated on Six in Paris (originally Paris vu Par...) Jean Douchet directed the film's first episode, "Saint Germain-des-Pres," the story of the up-and-down relationship between a male model (Jean-Francois Chappey) and an American coed (Barbara Wilkin). Jean Read More

Les Plus Belles Escroqueries Du Monde

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Francis Blanche, Catherine Deneuve, Gabriella Giorgetti, Nicole Karen

Synopsis: This anthology helmed by four talented filmmakers, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Hiromichi Horikawa, and Roman Polanski, allows viewers to meet and observe four international con artists. Each story is set within a different city. "Amsterdam" follows the attempts of a seductive Dutch woman to Read More

La Femme Mariée

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Macha Meril, Bernard Noel, Philippe Leroy, Roger Leenhardt

Synopsis: Director Jean-Luc Godard narrates this study of a married woman who begins an affair with another man. After becoming pregnant, she is unable to figure out which man is the father of her son and must choose between the two. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Bande à Part

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Louisa Colpeyn

Synopsis: One of pioneering director Jean-Luc Godard's most accessible films is this French spin on Dolores Hitchens' novel Fool's Gold. It tells the tale of three disaffected youths who plan a burglary, leading to deadly results. The alienated young trio is marvelous, particularly Anna Karina, and the Read More

Contempt

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, Giorgia Moll

Synopsis: Contempt is the story of the end of a marriage. Camille (Brigitte Bardot) falls out of love with her husband Paul (Michel Piccoli) while he is rewriting the screenplay Odyssey by American producer Jeremiah Prokosch (Jack Palance). Just as the director of Prokosch's film, Fritz Lang, says that The Read More

Les Carabiniers

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marino Masé, Albert Juross, Geneviève Galéa, Catherine Ribeiro

Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard directed this brutal and purposefully harsh satire (adapted from a play by Benjamino Joppolo) which explores the grim folly of war. Ulysses (Marino Masé) and Michel Ange (Albert Juross) are a pair of thickheaded peasants living in a nameless country who receive a visit from a pair Read More

RoGoPaG

Crew: Director

Actors: Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Marc Bory, Rosanna Schiaffino, Jean-Andre Fieschi, Orson Welles, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Delahaye

Synopsis: RoGoPaG is an omnibus of short films by Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ugo Gregoretti and Jean- Luc Godard. Each episode is introduced by a quotation from the Bible which the episode illustrates with a fiction of contemporary life. Rossellini's film, "Illibatezza" ("Virginity"), is the Read More

Cleo from 5 to 7

Actors: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanc, Michel Legrand

Synopsis: Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are desperate ones, in that Cleo, a pop singer, awaits the results of her tests for cancer. Director Agnes Varda stages the film in "real" rather than subjective time, its various Read More

Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marie-José Nat, Jacques Charrier, Eddie Constantine, Nicole Mirel, Dany Saval, Marina Vlady, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by Dhomme, chronicles a single horrific day when every bowl of soup in France is found to contain a fly. This causes a devastating nationwide revolt. "Envy" by Molinaro tells the Read More

My Life to Live

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Karina, Saddy Rebbot, Guylaine Schlumberger, André S. Labarthe, Eric Schlumberger, Brice Parain, Gerard Hoffman, Monique Messine

Synopsis: Vivre Sa Vie presents 12 episodes in the life of a young woman who turns to prostitution to pay her rent. Each episode features a theatrical scene preceded by a title that lists the characters in the episode, its location, and a brief summary of the action. As he would throughout his career Read More

A Woman Is a Woman

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Claude Brialy, Nicole Paquin, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: Director Jean-Luc Godard's deceptively blithe tribute to the musical comedy features Anna Karina as an exotic dancer who decides that it is time for her to have a child. When her lover refuses to commit to the decision, she turns her romantic attentions to his best friend. This being a Godard Read More

Breathless

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Liliane David, Henri-Jacques Huet

Synopsis: The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time hood wanted for killing a cop, and Patricia Franchini, an American who sells the International Herald Tribune along the Read More

Paris Nous Appartient

Actors: Betty Schneider, Gianni Esposito, Françoise Prevost, François Maistre

Synopsis: Paris Nous Appartient begins at the end-with a mysterious suicide. Curious as to why a young Spaniard would take his own life, Betty Schneider visits many of the places frequented by the dead youth. She learns from theatre-director Giani Esposito that the suicide victim was part of a sinister Read More

Le Petit Soldat

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Subor, Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques Huet, Laszlo Szabo, Paul Beauvais

Synopsis: This controversial spy-romance tale by Jean-Luc Godard was banned from release in France for three years because it refers to the use of torture on both the French and Algerian sides during the Algerian struggle for independence. The story focuses on Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor), a young Read More

Charlotte et Son Jules

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Ann Colette, Gérard Blain

Une Histoire D'Eau

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Une histoire d'eau , also known as A Story of Water , was one of five shorts Jean-Luc Godard made in collaboration with his Cahiers du Cinema cohorts in the late '50s and early '60s, prior to embarking on feature films. François Truffaut originally wrote and directed this short, about a girl Read More

Tous les Garcons S'Appellent Patrick

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Ann Colette, Nicole Berger

Synopsis: Charlotte et Véronique, also known as Tous les garcons s'appellent Patrick, was one of five shorts Jean-Luc Godard made in collaboration with his Cahiers du Cinema cohorts in the late '50s and early '60s, prior to embarking on feature films. The script was written by Eric Rohmer and is a slight Read More

Une Femme Coquette

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Operation Beton

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak

Actors: Jean-Luc Godard