c as cinema, f like France or R as a dream … In 1987, the director, died on September 13, at the age of 91, had agreed to lend himself to the game then offered to him the journalist Olivier Perety. Extract.
Le Monde
Shortly before the release of Careful your right, in 1987, our colleague from the Nouvel Observateur and Sailing Specialist Olivier Péretié submits to Jean-Luc Godard a proposal for an abecerated. Godard, who liked nothing as long as to get around his “natural” interlocutors (in this case, film critics), plays the game and takes the wind nicely. Extracts.
“Cinema. Cinema has never been done. I thought at one point, when I saw the dumbs, that everything had been done. It was as if I had suddenly discovered five centuries of Painting. It lasted to Pierrot Le Fou. I said to myself: “But what can I do, myself I did everything.” And then May 68 helped make the void today. ‘Hui, I know that everything has been done but that everything remains to be done. But as I get older, I know that it will not be done.
Critic. It’s hard to say good or Beckett evil. While evening visitors we can immediately say: “Oh, there, there! Anyway he exaggerates! What is that?” The local baker will not tell you that of Beethoven, on the other hand he will tell you of Resnais. He feels that he has the right to say that. Because cinema is vision, it is direct access. Everyone has a vision. There is an eternal struggle between saying and seeing it, a bit like between Israel and Ismael.
Films. All films, except perhaps the star war -and again, at Darty you can find all the devices that George Lucas -, it is generally two or three people who pass from a room in the other. And then, the film is finished.
France. France is a country that fucks nothing and that speaks a lot, which is a huge power, recognized by all countries. At the Council of Ministers, M thatcher must ask François Mitterrand: “Well, now, now the one who fucks nothing and who knows how to speak very well, Mr. Mitterrand, will tell us what he thinks , because I work a lot, but I don’t know how to talk very well. “
Le Pen. At the time of the little soldier (1963), Le Pen had asked for my expulsion from France from Michel Debré. It rejuvenates.
New wave. The new wave was born from Painlevé, Rouch, and Rossellini. Out of breath was born from the hippocampus of Painlevé, as much as from Rome, open city.
Mounting. There is a plan before and an after, and between the two there is a support, that’s the cinema. We see a rich, we see a poor and there is a rapprochement, and we say: it’s not fair. Justice comes from a rapprochement. And a balance, afterwards. The very idea of assembly is the balance of justice.
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