GRANDEUR ET DÉCADENCE D'UN PETIT COMMERCE DE CINÉMA

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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

(Paris, France, 1930 – Rolle, Switzerland, 2022) was one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, as well as one of the most radical and rigorous innovators of cinematic language. A tireless experimenter with forms, techniques and formats, he was a true thinker who used images to investigate the mechanisms of language, representation, speech and knowledge. A militant critic for Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s, he made his debut as a director with the epoch-making Breathless (1960) and from that moment on remained a point of reference for all filmmakers and film lovers around the world.

FILMOGRAFIA

Opération béton (cm 1954), Une femme coquette (cm, 1954), Tous les garçons s’appellent Patrick (cm, 1957), Charlotte et son Jules (1958), Une histoire d’eau (coregia François Truffaut, cm, 1958), 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 petit soldat (1963), Les Carabiniers (1963), Le Mépris (Il disprezzo, 1963), Bande à part (id., 1964), Une Femme mariée (Una donna sposata, 1964), Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Agente Lemmy Caution: missione Alphaville, 1965), Pierrot le fou (Il bandito delle 11, 1965), Masculin féminin (Il maschio e la femmina, 1966), Made in USA (Una storia americana, 1966), Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle (Due o tre cose che so di lei, 1967), La Chinoise (La cinese, 1967), Weekend (Week End - Una donna e un uomo da sabato a domenica, 1967), Le gai savoir (La gaia scienza, 1969), Le Vent d’est (Vento dell’est, 1969), Lotte in Italia (1971), Vladimir et Rosa (1970), Tout va bien (Crepa padrone, tutto va bene, 1972), Numéro deux (1975), Numéro deux (1975), Ici et ailleurs (1976), Six fois deux (tv, 1977), France, tour détour deux enfants, tv, 1977), Comment ça va? (1978), Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Si salvi chi può-La vita, 1980), Lettre à Freddy Buache (cm, 1982), Changer d’image (cm, 1982), Passion (id., 1982), Prénom Carmen (id., 1983), Je vous salue, Marie (id., 1985), Détective (Detective, 1985), Soigne ta droite (Cura la tua destra, 1987), Histoire(s) du cinéma (TV, 1989-1998), Nouvelle vague (id., 1990), Allemagne 90 neuf zéro (Germania nove zero, 1991), Hélas pour moi (1993), For Ever Mozart (1996), Éloge de l’amour (2001), Notre Musique (2004), Prières pour Refusniks I-II (cm, 2004) , Film socialisme (id., 2010), Adieu au langage (Addio al linguaggio, 2014), Le livre d’image (2018).

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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