Synopsis : Paul Javal, a young French playwright, accepts an offer from vulgar American producer Jeremy Prokosch to rework a script. After initial discussions, Prokosch invites the crew to join him at his villa, offering Camille, Paul’s wife, a ride in his two-seat sports car. Camille looks to Paul to decline the offer, but he withdraws to follow by taxi. Back at their apartment, Paul and Camille discuss the subtle uneasiness that has come between them, and Camille announces to her bewildered husband that she no longer loves him.
Awards : 1972 Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards 1963 Cashier du Cinèma
Director :
Jean Luc Godard
Producer :
Georges de Beauregard, Carlo Ponti, Joseph E. Levine
Screenplay :
Jean Luc Godard
DOP :
Raoul Coutard
Editor :
Agnès Guillemot, Lila Lakshmanan
Cast :
Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang
Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic who rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer, and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era and his acclaimed films include ‘Breathless’ (1960), ‘Vivre sa vie’ (1962), ‘Contempt’ (1963), ‘Band of Outsiders’ (1964), ‘Alphaville’ (1965), ‘Pierrot le Fou’ (1965), ‘Masculin Féminin’ (1966), ‘Weekend’ (1967), and ‘Goodbye to Language’ (2014).
During his early career as a film critic for the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, Godard criticised mainstream French cinema's ‘Tradition of Quality’, which de-emphasised innovation and experimentation. In response, he and like-minded critics began to make their own films, challenging the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. His work makes use of frequent homages and references to film history, and often expresses his political views. In 2010, Godard was awarded an Academy Honorary Award.