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Last meeting with Jean-Luc Godard. This documentary shows the filmmaker in preparation for “Scénario”, his unfinished testamentary film, before closing with a moving scene: the final appearance of a genius driven to the very end by his love of cinema.
In the summer of 2018, a few months after the release of Le Livre d’image, Jean-Luc Godard proposed a new feature film to ARTE, entitled Scénario. The filmmaker sends the network notes, then illustrated notebooks he calls “brochures”, outlining the evolution of the themes he wants to tackle, based on Lucretius’ poem De la nature des choses. By October 2021, a new brochure was ready. Collages, press clippings, paintings, photos, drawings, visual motifs and weightless words on paper: the 91-year-old filmmaker mixes techniques and gives shape to a thought whose fulgurating power is combined with a whole cosmogony of references and quotations. These include Jean Cocteau, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Naguib Mahfouz, Francis Bacon and Alain Badiou. In front of the camera of his collaborators Fabrice Aragno and Jean-Paul Battaggia, Jean-Luc Godard peels back the pages with his slimmed-down hands and gives instructions in a voice more vibrant than ever: how to articulate and film the six parts planned for Scenario, including “Fake news”, “Niepce-Hamlet” and “Le réel disparu”. Part work in progress, part slow-motion trailer, part snapshot of a creative process, this first part of L’histoire de “Scénario” bears witness to a creative process in progress.
Breathless
By naming his testamentary film Scénario, Jean-Luc Godard left the way open, not without irony and malice, to all manner of exegesis. But he was also undoubtedly demonstrating his determination to master his final narrative: that of his ultimate cinematic gesture, as well as that of his existence. Although he didn’t have the time to complete his project, the material he had been able to undertake was assembled into a short diptych haunted by genesis (“ADN”, the first part), decline and death (“IRM” for the second). Screened at Cannes in 2024, Scenarios (this time in the plural) closes the documentary, unfurling its string of images and film excerpts for sixteen minutes. It ends with a deeply moving sequence. On the eve of his assisted suicide in Switzerland, on September 13, 2022, the filmmaker invites Fabrice Aragno and Jean-Paul Battaggia to shoot a final shot, to honor his agreement with ARTE to the end. Sitting on his bed, shirt open, Jean-Luc Godard writes and comments on his final notes. Then the director of À bout de souffle straightens up, fixes the camera and utters an “OK” that sounds like a “Coupez” on a film set. After six decades of unique creative power, this is the final word that leaves the viewer speechless with astonishment.
L'histoire de Scenario (Jean-Luc Godard, 2024).mkv
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Runtime: 1 h 0 min
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish
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