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.
Cries and Whispers
Drama
7.9
Call Me by Your Name
Romance, Drama
8.1
Alien
Horror, Science Fiction
8.2
Back to the Future
Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
8.3
Inferno
Mystery, Thriller, Action
6.1
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Science Fiction, Drama, Romance
8.1
Avatar
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
7.6
Avengers: Endgame
Adventure, Science Fiction, Action
8.2
Avengers: Infinity War
Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
8.2
Parasite
Comedy, Thriller, Drama
8.5
The Lion King
Family, Animation, Drama
8.3
Mulholland Drive
Thriller, Drama, Mystery
7.8
Gladiator
Action, Drama, Adventure
8.2
The Matrix
Action, Science Fiction
8.2
Avatar: The Way of Water
Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
7.6
10 Things I Hate About You
Comedy, Romance, Drama
7.6
Guardians of the Galaxy
Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
7.9
Akira
Animation, Science Fiction, Action
7.9
The Conjuring
Horror, Thriller
7.5
Star Wars
Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
8.2
Fat Girl
Drama
6.2
Bridget Jones's Diary
Comedy, Romance, Drama
6.7
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
History, Drama, TV Movie
7.5
Unicorn Store
Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
5.9
Chile '76
Drama
7.0
Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations
Documentary
6.9
Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty
Documentary
6.7
The Piano
Drama, Romance
7.4
Little Miss Sunshine
Comedy, Drama
7.7
Kill House
Comedy, Horror
2.0
Huesera: The Bone Woman
Horror, Mystery, Drama
5.8
Of the Flesh
Drama, Horror
6.4
Wrestling with Alligators
Drama
10.0
Madame Bovary
Drama
5.7
Hunting the Phantom
Action, Science Fiction
3.7
Julia
Documentary
0.0
The Muleteer
Drama, History
0.0
Lucia in Limbo
Drama
6.2
Child's Play
Science Fiction, Adventure
7.0
Silver City
Drama, History, Romance
4.3