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
Fight Club
Drama
8.4
The Green Mile
Fantasy, Drama, Crime
8.5
Joker
Crime, Thriller, Drama
8.1
The Godfather
Drama, Crime
8.7
Deadpool
Action, Adventure, Comedy
7.6
Catch Me If You Can
Drama, Crime
8.0
Oppenheimer
Drama, History
8.1
Dune
Science Fiction, Adventure
7.8
Knives Out
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
7.8
The Abyss
Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
7.3
Interstellar
Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
8.4
Avatar: The Way of Water
Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
7.6
Midsommar
Horror, Drama, Mystery
7.2
Captain America: The First Avenger
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
7.0
Jaws
Horror, Thriller, Adventure
7.7
Alien
Horror, Science Fiction
8.2
The Thing
Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
8.1
Forrest Gump
Comedy, Drama, Romance
8.5
The House That Jack Built
Drama, Horror, Crime, Thriller
7.1
Kissed
Romance, Drama
6.4
Open Window
Drama
5.1
Peter Bell II: The Hunt for the Czar Crown
Family
5.4
The Indian
Adventure, Family
6.3
Sleepover LA
Drama, Music
1.0
The Heart of Loisaida
Documentary
0.0
One Foot Under
Comedy, Drama
4.6
The Devil's Arithmetic
TV Movie, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy
6.8
Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique...
Drama
3.3
I See the Sun
Drama, Romance, War
5.1
When Almonds Blossomed
Romance, Drama
3.8
Some Interviews on Personal Matters
Drama, Romance
4.6
The Little Incident
Drama, Music, Family, Romance
4.0
Birds at Sunrise
3.0
Mê Thao: Once Upon a Time
Romance, Drama
2.8
The Building
Horror, Thriller
0.0
Breathe
Drama
7.1
Insecure
Drama
5.6
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Drama
7.6
The Domino Effect
Documentary
5.6