SEPTEMBER 5: Nouvelle Vague - 7.00 pm
Le petit soldat
(Jean-Luc Godard) PG 1960/63 France 88 mins
Le petit soldat
(Jean-Luc Godard) PG 1960/63 France 88 mins
A young French secret agent is commanded to murder an FLN leader. Godard's savage exposition of the Algerian conflict was banned for several years in France for the explicitness of its representation of torture & the moral ambiguity of its characters. Anna Karina's feature debut, with evocatively immediate cinematography by Raoul Coutard. Michel Subor's protagonist returned as the commander in Claire Denis' fascinating companion piece, Beau travail.
Articles from CTEQ Annotations on Film:
Relevant Articles from Senses of Cinema:
"Le Petit Soldat" - Tim Palmer
"Great Director's Critical Database: Jean-Luc Godard"- Craig Keller
"The Godard Streak or Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder" - Geoff Gardner
SEPTEMBER 5: NOUVELLE VAGUE - 8:40pm
MURIEL, OU LE TEMPS D'UN RETOUR
Alain Resnais (1963) 116 mins
MURIEL, OU LE TEMPS D'UN RETOUR
Alain Resnais (1963) 116 mins
Delphine Seyrig invites her lover from 20 years earlier to stay with her & her stepson. Resnais' deeply philosophical follow-up to Last Year at Marienbad is haunted by the recent past (Algeria, WWII) & features rhythmic dialogue & overlapping sound, visionary use of colour & a fragmented, prismatic narrative giving resonance to a group of characters tortured by personal, social & historical memory. Ethereal modernist score by Hans Werner Henze, & crisp cinematography by Sacha Vierny.
Articles from CTEQ Annotations on Film: