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5.4

♡ 2

38%

car factory

student protest

Jean-Luc Godard Director

An analysis of the social upheaval of May 1968, made in the immediate wake of the workers’ and students’ protests. The picture consists of two parts, each with with identical image tracks, and differing narration.

Vladimir and Rosa

1971

5.8

♡ 6

social & cultural documentary

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Yves Afonso as

Anne Wiazemsky as Ann / Women's liberation militant

Jean-Pierre Gorin as Karl Rosa

Jean-Luc Godard as Vladimir Lenin

Jean-Luc Godard's and Jean-Pierre Gorin's interpretation of the Chicago Eight / Chicago Seven trial, which followed the 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activities. Judge Hoffman becomes the character Judge Himmler (played by Ernest Menzer) and the defendants become a microcosms of the French Revolution.

Lotte in Italia

1971

Italian

5.9

♡ 3

social documentary

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Cristiana Tullio-Altan as

Paolo Pozzesi as Father / Lecturer / Policeman / Porter

Anne Wiazemsky as Store clerk

Jerome Hinstin as Young man

The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.

Wind from the East

1970

5.8

♡ 5

communism

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Daniel Cohn-Bendit as

Glauber Rocha as

Cristiana Tullio-Altan as La jeune bourgeoise

Götz George as Soldat

A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.

See You at Mao

1970

English

6.1

♡ 9

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a montage of various disconnected political acts (in line with Godard's then appropriation of Soviet director Dziga Vertov's agitprop techniques), it combines a diverse range of footage, from students discussing The Beatles to the production line at the MG factory in Oxfordshire, burnished with onscreen political sloganeering.

Oh, Woe Is Me

1993

6.1

♡ 5

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Harry Cleven as Le Dieu

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as Ludovic, un élève

Jérôme Pradon as Miguel

Gérard Depardieu as Simon Donnadieu

This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behaving husband.

Changer d'image - Lettre à la bien-aimée

1982

6.3

♡ 1

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Luc Godard as The Idiot

1981: at the moment the left won power, French television commissioned Godard to make a film on the theme of change. Like Lettre à Freddy Buache, this film is born of the impossibility of carrying out the commission. For the space where change appears is not the image but the gap between images.

How Is It Going?

1976

6.0

♡ 1

woman director

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Michel Marot as Communist Newspaper Editor

Anne-Marie Miéville as Odette

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, especially how to caption two specific images: one of a protest in Portugal, the other of a strike in France. One of them decides to write to his son, a manual worker living outside of Paris with his girlfriend, telling the young man about his troubles.

Here and Elsewhere

1976

7.0

♡ 3

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Luc Godard as Narrator

Anne-Marie Miéville as Narrator

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.

Six in Paris

1965

6.7

♡ 5

76%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Joanna Shimkus as Monica

Éric Rohmer as Narrator

Nadine Ballot as Odile

Stéphane Audran as The mother

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.

All's Well

1972

6.5

♡ 7

50%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Cristiana Tullio-Altan as (as Chris Tullio)

Vittorio Caprioli as Factory Manager

Jane Fonda as Her, Suzanne

Anne Wiazemsky as Leftist woman

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

First Name: Carmen

1983

6.3

♡ 6

88%

61%

bank

based on novel or book

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Maruschka Detmers as Carmen X

Jean-Luc Godard as Jeannot / L'oncle de Carmen-Carmen's Uncle

Christophe Odent as Le chef / Leader

Jacques Prat as Violon

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 beachside house to make a film with some friends, but they are in fact planning to rob a bank. During the robbery she falls in love with a security guard. The film intercuts between Carmen's escape with the guard, her uncle's attempt to make a comeback film, and a string quartet attempting to perform Beethoven.

The Carabineers

1963

6.7

♡ 5

80%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean Brassat as Carabinier #2

Catherine Ribeiro as Cleopatre

Marino Masé as Ulysses

Geneviève Galéa as Venus

During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.

The Oldest Profession

1967

5.4

♡ 6

62%

sexual experimentation

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Michèle Mercier as Brit

Raquel Welch as Nini

Tilly Lauenstein as (segment "Belle époque, La")

Jacques Marin as Un agent de police

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

A Married Woman

1964

7.1

♡ 17

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Macha Méril as Charlotte

Véronique Duval as Girl in Swimming Pool

Jean-Luc Godard as The Narrator

Georges Liron as The Physician

A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.

Goodbye to Language

2014

5.8

♡ 6

88%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Alexandre Païta as

Isabelle Carbonneau as

Jean-Luc Godard as Narrator

Adolf Hitler as Self

The idea is simple / A married woman and a single man meet / They love, they argue, fists fly / A dog strays between town and country / The seasons pass / The man and woman meet again / The dog finds itself between them / The other is in one, / the one is in the other / and they are three / The former husband shatters everything / A second film begins: / the same as the first, / and yet not / From the human race we pass to metaphor / This ends in barking / and a baby's cries / In the meantime, we will have seen people talking of the demise of the dollar, of truth in mathematics and of the death of a robin." - JLG

The Little Soldier

1963

7.1

♡ 15

81%

73%

algerian war (1954-62)

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Georges de Beauregard as Activist Leader

Michel Subor as Bruno Forestier

Jean-Luc Godard as Man at Railway Station

Anna Karina as Veronica Dreyer

Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement.

Le gai savoir

1969

6.0

♡ 8

46%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Émile Rousseau

Jean-Luc Godard as Narrator

Juliet Berto as Patricia Lumumba

Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions.

The Image Book

2018