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.
Scrooged
Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
6.8
Cries and Whispers
Drama
7.9
Parasite
Comedy, Thriller, Drama
8.5
Oppenheimer
Drama, History
8.1
Princess Mononoke
Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
8.3
Rear Window
Thriller, Mystery
8.3
The Silence of the Lambs
Crime, Thriller, Drama
8.3
Fight Club
Drama, Thriller
8.4
Joker
Crime, Thriller, Drama
8.1
Pulp Fiction
Thriller, Crime, Comedy, Drama
8.5
The Godfather
Drama, Crime
8.7
Fargo
Crime, Drama, Thriller
7.9
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
7.8
La La Land
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music
7.9
Gladiator
Action, Drama, Adventure
8.2
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
Science Fiction, Adventure
7.2
Zombieland
Comedy, Horror
7.3
Anora
Drama, Comedy, Romance
7.0
Civil War
War, Action, Drama
6.9
Big Fish
Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
7.8
Mothers of Life
Documentary
4.0
Happy New Year
Action, Comedy, Crime, Adventure
6.1
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Documentary
7.2
Invicta
Horror, Comedy
2.0
The Aggressives
Drama
5.0
Summer of Love
Documentary
0.0
Mountain
Documentary
6.9
Brave New World
Science Fiction, TV Movie
5.5
Presumed Dead in Paradise
TV Movie, Thriller
5.2
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Documentary, Music
6.5
On Dangerous Ground
Drama, Crime
6.6
Empire of Silver
Drama, History, Family, Romance
5.5
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Drama, Romance
6.0
Genesis
Documentary
6.2
I Can't Think Straight
Drama, Romance
7.5
Paris Is Burning
Documentary
8.0
After the Revolution
Documentary
0.0
Killing Jesus
Crime, Drama
6.7
W-A-L-K
Drama, Comedy
0.0
Off-Limits
Drama, Comedy
3.0