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
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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
7.1
Civil War
War, Action, Drama
6.9
Big Fish
Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
7.8
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Documentary, Family
0.0
REM
Science Fiction, Drama
7.3
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Documentary
4.2
Alone
Documentary
6.6
Taken Heart
Action, Crime, Thriller
3.8
Killing Time
Drama, Comedy
5.7
Italian for Beginners
Comedy, Drama, Romance
6.4
The Secret Life of Words
Romance, Drama
7.0
Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving
Animation, Family
6.8
Flaming Ears
Science Fiction, Fantasy
4.3
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
Drama, TV Movie
6.9
7 Bananas
Drama
0.0
Vera Klement: Blunt Edge
Documentary
0.0
Boulevard's End
0.0
Patong Girl
Romance, Drama
5.7
School Number 3
Documentary
10.0
I Will Always Love You Conny
Drama
10.0
Sifter
Drama, Comedy
0.0
24-Karat Christmas
Romance, Comedy
0.0
Postings
Drama
0.0