Redoubtable is a new biopic which focuses on the French-Swiss auteur’s early career.
But in obsessing over the old Godard, it obscures the fact that he’s still making radical filmsSign up for Film Today and get our film team’s highlights of the dayBrace yourselves for a wave of Godard nostalgia.
It’s 40 years since Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and co closed down the 1968 Cannes film festival in solidarity with student protests in Paris.
This year’s Cannes poster also pays tribute to Godard’s 1965 film Pierrot Le Fou.
Those were the days, eh? When cinema was radical and part of the revolutionary struggle.
Nobody embodied that more than Godard.
He is cinema’s Picasso and its Che Guevara.
He is the auteur wannabe auteurs want to be and remains the most dazzling, inventive, stylish, insouciantly brilliant yet confrontationally political film-maker the medium has ever seen.
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