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GRANDEUR ET DÉCADENCE D'UN PETIT COMMERCE DE CINÉMA

THE RISE AND FALL OF A SMALL FILM COMPANY
by Jean-Luc Godard
Country: France, Switzerland
Year: 1986
Duration: 90'


The French director Gaspard Bazin is making his new feature film, which is in pre-production: at the moment, he is involved in casting and trying to scrape together the money for the production. Jean Almereyda, the producer, is having a very hard time gathering the funds to finance it. Plus, his wife, Eurydice, desperately wants to become a real actress and be in a movie. Almereyda would like to satisfy his wife’s whim but what stops him is the reputation of Bazin, a well-known ladies’ man and relentless seducer who, the producer believes, wouldn’t hesitate a moment to take advantage of Eurydice. So, what could have been a solution to the movie’s production problems becomes the starting point of a perverse game between two men… The restored version of one of Jean-Luc Godard’s least-known movies, a meta-linguistic thriller which nods at comedy, made for the TV series “Série noire” and which aired on the French TV channel Tf1.

Biography

film director

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (Paris, 1930) is one of the absolute protagonists of the Nouvelle Vague, first as a militant film critic for “Cahiers du cinéma” during the 1950s, then as a director, right from his debut with Breathless (1960). Over the course of a career which has lasted almost fifty years, Godard has established himself as one of the most radical and rigorous innovators of the film language.

FILMOGRAFIA

À bout de souffle (Fino all’ultimo respiro, 1960), Une Femme est une femme (La donna è donna, 1961), Vivre sa vie (Questa è la mia vita, 1962), Le Mépris (Il disprezzo, 1963), Une Femme mariée (Una donna sposata, 1964), Pierrot le fou (Il bandito delle undici, 1965), Made in USA (Una storia americana, 1966), La Chinoise (La cinese, 1967), Lotte in Italia (1971), Tout va bien (Crepa padrone, tutto va bene, 1972), Numéro deux (1975), Ici et ailleurs (1976), Comment ça va? (1978), Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Si salvi chi può-La vita, 1980), Passion (id., 1982), Prénom Carmen (id., 1983), Je vous salue, Marie (id., 1985), Soigne ta droite (Cura la tua destra, 1987), Histoire(s) du cinéma (TV, 1989-1998), Nouvelle vague (id., 1990), Hélas pour moi (1993), For Ever Mozart (1996), Éloge de l’amour (2001), Notre Musique (2004), Prières pour Refusniks I-II (2004) , Film socialisme (2010), Adieu au langage (Addio al linguaggio, 2014).

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Jean-Luc Godard
soggetto/story
dal romanzo/from the novel Chantons en cœur di/by James Hadley Chase
fotografia/cinematography
Caroline Champetier, Serge Le François
suono/sound
Pierre-Alain Besse, François Musy
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Jean-Pierre Léaud (Gaspard Bazin), Marie Valera (Eurydice), Jean-Pierre Mocky (Jean Almereyda)
produttore/producer
Pierre Grimblat
produzione/production
Tf1, Hamster Productions, Tsr, Jlg Films, Rtl

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contatti/contatcs
Capricci
Valentin Carrère
valentin.carrere@capriccicine.es
www.capricci.fr
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