Tuesday, June 7, 2011

FILM SOCIALISME Réalisateur Jean-Luc Godard

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Plot

According to the synopsis on the film's official website,[3] the film is composed of three movements:
  • The first movement, Des choses comme ça ("Such things") is set on a cruise ship, featuring multi-lingual conversations among a medley collection of passengers. Characters include an aging war criminal, a former United Nations official and a Russian detective.
  • The second movement, Notre Europe ("Our Europe"), involves a pair of children, a girl and her younger brother, summoning their parents to appear before the "tribunal of their childhood", demanding serious answers on the themes of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
  • The final movement, Nos humanités ("Our humanities") visits six legendary sites: EgyptPalestineOdessaHellasNaples, and Barcelona.
The cruise ship is the Costa Serena, sailing around the Mediterranean Sea.

[edit]Production

Principal photography began in 2008, and the film was originally scheduled for a 10 January 2010 release, but an extended post-production delayed its release.[4][5] Most of the film was shot around the Mediterranean Sea.
The film is Godard's first in HD video and the 16:9 aspect ratio, as well as his first in several decades not be photographed with an intended aspect ratio of 4:3. Though Godard was one of the first major directors to shoot and edit on video, and has incorporated video footage and editing into most of his work since the mid-1970s, this is the first theatrical release from him to be shot entirely in a digital format. As with many of his films, Godard's partner Anne-Marie Miéville worked on the film, other people credited as collaborators being Fabrice Aragno and Louma Sanbar, who also have worked with Godard before.

sunairi: Godard was simply complex message of collaged vignettes in ecstatically beautiful images! Though I am not sure if I understood the movie in a way Godard was telling the story I left the theater satisfied and feeling clear!

It was not like when I saw JLG by JLG feeling confused and bitter. This time I could follow his resentment in his view of the world that is beautiful at the same time something terribly wrong.

I enjoyed the great sound experimentation, visually stunning, complex mourning of European concept and the continents that the boat was traveling.