007...Allemagne 90 neuf zéro Godard

ALLEMAGNE ANNEE 90 NEUF ZERO

1990 - France

AKA: Allemagne Neuf Zero
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
German Nine Zero

"Godard's movie neither is a movie in the traditional sense nor a documentary. It's rather a philosophical approach to that event - Godard shows short fragments of fictional and non-fictional episodes, opinions and facts served with an interesting musical (classical) music score. The movie itself is split into many titled chapters that reminded me of the last episodes of the fantastic japanese anime 'neon genesis evangelion'."

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Avant-garde / Experimental, Political Drama......Not Rated

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"Germany Year Nine Zero follows an old spy's journey back to France from the east. Since the Cold War has ended the spy is unclear about who his enemies are, and he doesn't know what to do with himself. Jean-Luc Godard's film is a series of scenes that present his thoughts on European unification and the fall of Communism. The title harkens back to Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, a film made in the immediate aftermath of World War II that, like Godard's film, considered the fate of the world in changing political conditions. As his use of Rossellini's title suggests, Godard is concerned with the fate of cinema as well as the fate of the world. He is concerned that as borders are erased, and as the world comes more and more under the sway of corporate power, the cinema will become more and more homogenized and commercial." —

CAST

Eddie Constantine  - Lemmy Caution
Nathalie Kadem .... Delphine de Stael
André S. Labarthe .... Narrator
Claudia Michelsen .... Charlotte Kestner/Dora
Anton Mossine .... Dimitri
Robert Wittmers .... Don Quixote
Hanns Zischler .... Count Zelten

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LANGUAGE......FRENCH

SUBTITLES.......ENGLISH

RUNNING TIME.....1 Hour 02 Minutes

PICTURE QUALITY: ....GOOD.....Low Production Values

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Jean-Luc Godard Biography

The linchpin of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard was arguably the most influential filmmaker of the postwar era. Beginning with his groundbreaking 1959 feature debut A Bout de Souffle, Godard revolutionized the motion picture form, freeing the medium from the shackles of its long-accepted cinematic language by rewriting the rules of narrative, continuity, sound and camera work. Later in his career, he also challenged the common means of feature production, distribution and exhibition, all in an effort to subvert the conventions of the Hollywood formula to create a new kind of film.

Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children. After receiving his primary education in Nyon, Switzerland — during World War II, he became a naturalized Swiss citizen — he studied ethnology at the Sorbonne, but spent the vast majority of his days at the Cine-Club du Quarter Latin, where he first met fellow film fanatics Francois Truffaut and Jacques Rivette. In May 1950, the three men united to publish La Gazette du Cinema, a monthly film journal which ran through November of the same year; here Godard printed his first critical pieces, which appeared both under his own name and under the pseudonym Hans Lucas. With Rivette's 1950 short feature Quadrille, Godard made his acting debut, also appearing in Eric Rohmer's Presentation ou Charlotte et son Steack the following year.

In January 1952, Godard began writing for Cahiers du Cinema, the massively influential film magazine which also grew to include staffers Truffaut, Rivette, Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, among others. However, Godard's first tenure at Cahiers proved to be brief: in the autumn of 1952 he left France to return to Switzerland, where he worked on the construction of the Grande-Dixence Dam. With his earnings, Godard was able to finance his first film, the short subject Operation Beton. While in Geneva in 1955, he helmed his sophomore effort, the 10-minute Une Femme Coquette, subsequently appearing in Rivette's Le Coup de Berger. Upon returning to France in the summer of 1956, Godard resumed his work at Cahiers after a four-year break from writing. There he rose to the top ranks of French film criticism while honing his increasingly fresh and free-wheeling directorial style over the course of the short comedies Tous les Garcons s'appellent Patrick (1957), Charlotte et son Jules and Une Histoire d'Eau (both 1958), the latter co-directed by Truffaut.

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JEAN-LUC GODARD 1991 Film ALLEMAGNE ANNEE 90 NEUF ZERO

007...Allemagne 90 neuf zéro Godard

NO PUBLIC YOUTUBE