Godard "Pushed Limits of the Freedom" in Filmmaking | Redoubtable' | Cannes 2017 - video Dailymotion

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Director Michel Hazanavicius speaks to the subject of his film, French director Jean-Luc Godard.

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00:00Now looking back at Godard's work, what about him do you admire?

00:05The freedom. First of all, it's the freedom.

00:08From his very first movie, from Breathless.

00:11How he felt free with narration, with characters, with all the rules,

00:18the classical rules of storytelling.

00:22Movie after movie, he pushed the limits of the freedom.

00:28And now it's very far.

00:41My first contact with this movie was the reading of the books,

00:46wrote by Ann Wierzemski, his ex-wife and actress.

00:49The challenge was to find the right balance between comedy and tragedy,

00:53between reverence and irreverence,

00:58and the distance in the narration and the empathy for the characters.

01:01It was all a question of balance.

01:03It's my first time here.

01:11So for me, it's quite a discovery really.

01:14But it's been really incredible.

01:16I mean, the response that people have had, the surprise element of that.

01:20I think people were really shocked and in awe of this kind of new interpretation.

01:25So for me, it's been quite exciting.

01:28Michel se presents Jean-Jacques, a friend.

01:30Puis Jean-Jacques se presents Michel Cournot,

01:32who is a critic, kinéaste,

01:34who has made a film called Les Gauloises Bleues,

01:37and who, for the rest, is selected at Cannes.

01:40It was such a specific style and genre that Michel brought to this story,

01:44and at the same time, he mixed it with the politics of France at that time,

01:47and he mixed it with, you know, the very Nouvelle Vague style, in a way.

01:53You have to be completely crazy to go to Cannes this year,

01:56with all that's happening right now.

01:58France, that's cool.

02:00It's not true.

02:02When we were making the movie, I could see that people were very curious about

02:09what are you going to do, you know,

02:11with this double reputation of Jean-Luc Godard,

02:14which is a myth, like a legend, like a revolutionary artist,

02:18and then also with the reputation of somebody who is maybe too much intellectual for people.

02:24So the thing is that people miss one thing,

02:27that Jean-Luc Godard has a great sense of humor, you know,

02:30in his movies, in his way of acting, in his reaction, in his critique books and everything.

02:37As a spectator, I'm a very big fan of his work,

02:41because it's a huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge career that he had.

02:45Like, he did so many movies, so different movies,

02:48and so I'm coming back to Godard movies a lot of time,

02:51because it's so important, you know,

02:53the way made movies change completely the cinematographic language for everyone.

03:00amazing,

03:03as well as the that kind of lioness,

03:06and at least he knew that the one who got a solo person.

03:09So I'm not gonna make movies this week.

03:11I'm not gonna take that right,

03:13but I'll be fine.

03:15But not a lot of time,

03:16but I'll see you soon.

03:17But there are all that time,

03:19and I'll see you soon as one of Zhiyun,

03:21so I'm not gonna be fine.

03:22That's the way I'm gonna be fine.

03:24And I'm gonna be fine.

Godard "Pushed Limits of the Freedom" in Filmmaking | Redoubtable' | Cannes 2017

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