Breaking Baz @ Cannes: Godard Speaks! While Martin Scorsese & Todd Haynes Bring High Drama To The Croisette
deadline.comGodard speaks! Again. Quite rightly there’s a lot of hoopla about the world premiere of a 20-minute trailer the late cinema legend Jean-Luc Godard made for a feature film that will never exist: Phoney Wars.
Cannes festival director Thierry Frémaux explained Sunday at a special screening of the work that Godard extensively researched trailers as well as films.
The Phoney Wars trailer footage is a series of collages on what appears to be photographic paper, and the topic explored is Charles Plisnier, a Belgian surrealist and poet who was expelled from the Communist party in 1937 for, as Godard puts it, “Trotskyist deviancy.” The festival noted that the work “will remain as the ultimate gesture of cinema.” RELATED: Cannes Film Festival 2023 In Photos A curiosity, if you will, that will be wheeled out at film seminars in Paris, London and New York, for all of us to wonder what might have been had Godard been able to make the actual feature film.
There’s text from Godard in the footage that gives us a hint: “To no longer trust the billions of diktats of the alphabet to give back freedom to the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a true language by returning to the places of past shoots while taking into account the present stories.” RELATED: Goodfellas Boards Sales On Jean-Luc Godard’s Final Work ‘Trailer Of The Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars’; Watch Trailer For Movie But good on the festival for screening it on a large canvas, particularly as Godard likened cinema to painting.
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