An almost ecstatic recounting by Jean-Luc Godard of the making of a painting by the apocryphal artist Aimé Pache.
The title of this twenty-minute video by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, “Freedom and Fatherland,” is the official slogan of the Canton de Vaud, in Switzerland, where the filmmakers live and grew up. To fulfill their commission from a Swiss cultural festival, they adapted a great Swiss novel, “Aimé Pache, Painter from the Vaud,” by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, from 1911 (about a local artist who goes to Paris for his education and then returns home) and extruded its autobiographical analogies to Godard’s own life and work. Using a choice set of clips from Godard’s films to coincide with events from the painter’s life, verbal references to modern times and to Godard’s own—Sartre, the late nineteen-sixties, the cinema—and images of the Swiss terrain, which plays a decisive role in the work of Pache, Godard, and Miéville (an important filmmaker in her own right), they produce the effect of mirrors within mirrors.
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6.8
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7.9
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8.5
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Crime, Thriller, Drama
8.1
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy
7.4
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Science Fiction, Drama
7.6
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Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
8.5
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Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
7.2
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Mystery, Thriller
8.2
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Crime, Mystery, Thriller
8.4
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Action, Drama
7.1
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Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
7.3
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Comedy, Drama
8.0
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Drama, Crime
8.7
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Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
7.6
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Action, Adventure, Comedy
7.6
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Action, Thriller
7.4
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Drama, Thriller, Action
7.5
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Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
8.4
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Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
6.7
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Crime, Romance, Horror, Thriller, Action
6.6
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Drama, Romance
6.0
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2.1
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Drama
6.3
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Drama, Romance
6.9
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Comedy, Drama, Romance
6.3
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Romance, Drama
7.0
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Comedy
5.7
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Comedy, Crime
5.9
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Animation
0.0
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Comedy, Drama
6.1
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Romance
5.3
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Animation, Family
0.0
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Documentary, Drama
0.0
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Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Horror
0.0
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Crime, Drama, Romance
0.0
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Music, Comedy
7.0
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Drama
3.0
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0.0
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Horror, Drama, Fantasy
6.1