Friday, August 31, 2012

008 .. Ici et ailleurs (1976) GODARD

JEAN-LUC GODARD 1976 Film ICI ET AILLEURS

ICI ET AILLEURS

* * * * 1976 - France * * *

AKA: Here and Elsewhere

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville

William Lubtchansky - Cinematographer

Semi-documentary...Media and Social Issues......Not Rated......Low Production Values

"Godard, Miéville and Gorin (aka the "Dziga Vertov Group") examine the parallel lives of two families - one French, one Palestinian - using an exploratory combination of film and video.......Initially begun as a documentary about Palestinian revolutionaries, Ici et Ailleurs (in English, Here and Elsewhere) was ultimately transformed into an hour-long filmed essay addressing the relationship between politics and image, the problems of documentary filmmaking, and the danger of media saturation. Collaborators Jean-Pierre Gorin and Anne-Marie Melville began the film with funding from Palestinian forces, under the title Victory, intending to create a sympathetic portrait of the revolutionaries as a true people's movement. Not long after the filmmakers' return to France, however, most of their subjects were killed in warfare, and the issues behind the film no longer seemed so simple........the suggestion is that all films, especially documentaries, present a false, constructed vision of reality."

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LANGUAGE......FRENCH

SUBTITLES.......ENGLISH

RUNNING TIME.....54 Minutes

PICTURE QUALITY: ....Good........Low Production Values...........

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008 .. Ici et ailleurs (1976) JEAN-LUC GODARD

NO PUBLIC YOUTUBE

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