The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (Cine Fan)
Genre
SPECIAL PROGRAMME
Release Date
28 May 2023 (Sun)
Category
--- (HK), ---(Macau)
Running Time
92 Minutes
Language
French, Italian
Subtitle
English
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Cast
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie Valera, Jean-Pierre Mocky
Synopsis
The deconstruction of a murder as only Godard could envision it. Is it about the making of a murder mystery for television amid clashing ideas of art and finance? Or about the making of the making (the factory, not the dream), tied into petty and nefarious subterfuge and financial trickery? Or about cinema and its own enigmas, as Godard himself appears to comment while guiding us towards red herring filmic references? Made for a French noir thriller series, this selfreflexive meditation on the fate of cinema at a time when television and video threatened to overtake it is a wry and complex delight.
The deconstruction of a murder as only Godard could envision it. Is it about the making of a murder mystery for television amid clashing ideas of art and finance? Or about the making of the making (the factory, not the dream), tied into petty and nefarious subterfuge and financial trickery? Or about cinema and its own enigmas, as Godard himself appears to comment while guiding us towards red herring filmic references? Made for a French noir thriller series, this selfreflexive meditation on the fate of cinema at a time when television and video threatened to overtake it is a wry and complex delight.
