The Cinefamily’s showing Jean Luc Godard’s latest (and maybe last) film, Film Socialisme for a whole week later this month. It’s truly le dope shit. Besides being technically and visually breathtaking (nerdy Godard pun intended) enough to watch over and over anyway, this is the first time the movie’s been shown with real English subtitles - or in Los Angeles at all. Here’s my blurbage:
A scintillatingly deconstructed filmic essay that’s as lyrically persuasive as it is visually and sonically fractured, Film Socialisme might be Godard’s most rigorous and thorough reinvention of cinema yet. Opening on a cruise ship in the middle of the Mediterranean sea , the film unfolds elegantly into a global tryptic whose second panel shows us a family-run garage in France, and whose final segment explodes across a half-dozen historical Mediterranean nexus points. A humanist critique of how culture and commerce intersect and collide across international borders, Film Socialismes kaleidoscopically color-saturated screen overflows with life – spies, would-be-presidents, ornery children, Patti Smith(!), immigrants, and even a llama help make up the film’s populist panorama. The soundscape is an even more densely populated, intricately edited polyglot maze of overlapping languages and ambient recordings. For all its fractured experimentation, Film Socialisme is nearly seamless — it doesn’t so much shatter cinematic conventions as melt them.
http://www.cinefamily.org/films/godards-film-socialisme-godard-in-the-60s/#film-socialisme-121-230pm
