SCREENING SUNDAY 1st MARCH

A group of radicalised Parisian students form a Maoist study-cell in an apartment during the summer before 1968. Immersed in propaganda, manifestos, and ideological debate, they attempt to translate revolutionary theory into direct political action. As personal tensions rise and their plans grow increasingly extreme, Godard uses satire, Brechtian staging, and bold colour design to examine the contradictions and naïveté of youthful militancy. The film anticipates the political unrest soon to erupt in France, presenting both a critique and portrait of the era’s revolutionary dreams and delusions.

Notes by David O’Mahony

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