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Bookmark this pageLe Gai Savoir (1968)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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From Time Out Film Guide
Commissioned (in a moment of exceptional naiveté) by French TV, Le Gai Savoir was Godard's first 'radical' break with established methods of exhibition and distribution; the film was never televised, and has been seen only by political groups and film societies. Two militants meet in a darkened film studio to educate themselves in the ideological meanings of specific sounds and images: their work is essentially 'de-constructive', and it represents an important step in Godard's own return to a 'degree zero' of cinema. In Godard's own terms, the film is not atall revolutionary: it's a confused, idiosyncratic attempt at an analysis of the way things are, not yet a committed attempt to construct the way they should be.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Jeanson full cast
Duration: 91 mins
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