SCREENING SATURDAY 21st MARCH

Godard’s reimagining of the Greek myth of Alcmene and Amphitryon is set in a contemporary Swiss lakeside town where Rachel (Laurence Masliah) believes her husband Simon (Gérard Depardieu) may have been visited – or replaced – by a god seeking to experience human love. Godard uses the premise not to build a traditional narrative but to explore metaphysical questions about desire and the divine. The film’s hypnotic pacing and austere beauty make it one of his most enigmatic and alluring late works, a meditation on the mysteries of incarnation and the limits of human understanding.

Notes by David O’Mahony

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