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Released in 1960, Breathless announced the arrival of a filmmaker who has spent the intervening decades striving to redefine and reshape the medium. Spanning Jean-Luc Godard’s astonishingly prolific first decade, the films in the first part of this two-month season trace the director’s path from the rule-breaking energy of that iconic debut to the increasingly radical, self-reflexive experiments that would come to define his later work. The presence of Anna Karina, his Danish muse - and, for over four years, his wife - looms large throughout. Collectively, the films chart JLG’s shifting preoccupations: the playful reinvention of genre in A Woman Is a Woman, Band of Outsiders, Alphaville, and Made in U.S.A.; the emotional and philosophical depth of collaborations with Anna Karina in Vivre sa vie, The Little Soldier, and Pierrot le Fou; and the sharp critiques of consumerism and contemporary life in A Married Woman, Masculin Féminin, and Two or Three Things I Know About Her. Learn more about Jean-Luc Godard at the latest in our IFI Talks series The Rhythm of Ideas: Jean-Luc Godard and the Cinema of the French New Wave presented by Douglas Morrey, Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick. Four tiles from Truth, 24 Times Per Second: The Films of Jean-Luc Godard will also be available on IFI@Home. MULTI-FILM PASSES FOR IFI MEMBERS:
HAMNET 13.25, 18.00
MARTY SUPREME 20.00
NO OTHER CHOICE 17.10, 20.45
NOUVELLE VAGUE 13.00 (OC), 20.35
SENTIMENTAL VALUE 11.45, 15.15, 18.00
THE HISTORY OF SOUND 14.30
THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB 16.00
WILD STRAWBERRIES: I SWEAR 11.00 (OC)
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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