SCREENING SUNDAY 22nd MARCH

Even by JLG’s extraordinary standards, Éloge de l’amour counts as one of his most perceptive works. Told in reverse chronology, the film follows Edgar, a filmmaker attempting to make a project about love in its various forms. Shot first in luminous black-and-white 35mm and then in saturated digital colour, the film weaves together romance, memory, history, and politics. The film offers a wealth of insights on questions which have informed so much of the director’s work, including the nature of cinema; the relationship between the past and the present; cultural colonisation and forms of resistance.

Notes by David O’Mahony

Screening as part of Truth, 24 Frames per Second: The Films of Jean-Luc Godard