SCREENING SUNDAY 29th MARCH

JLG’s final feature-length work, a stimulating essay on the history and power of images. Drawing on film clips, newsreels, paintings and literature, Godard reflects on war, colonialism, cinema and the Middle East, assembling a fractured audiovisual collage that resists easy interpretation. Sound and image are deliberately distorted, challenging habits of viewing and listening. Awarded a Special Palme d’Or at Cannes, the film exemplifies Godard’s late style: rigorous, abrasive and deeply poetic, inviting audiences to reconsider how images shape memory, politics and belief.

Notes by David O’Mahony

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