This is a beautiful, but unknown, short film by Jean-Luc Godard, which the filmmaker directed at Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios in 1981, when he was filming 'The Bottom of the Heart'.
Coppola was the one who financed the short, which cost just US$30,000.
However, Godard only finished the short in 2006.
The short features the participation of the great Italian director of photography Vittorio Storaro and the Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalowsky.
Konchalowsky reads a text about the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne regarding artistic creation, in which the French painter said he wanted to make the invisible become visible.
Godard critically shows the creation of an immense scenario, with many professionals involved, to reproduce, in Cinema, the painting 'Le Nouveau-Né' (The Newborn), by the French painter Georges de La Tour.
However, in the end, Godard makes it clear that it is not necessary to do something monumental to create a beautiful work of art, as he only uses a candle and two actresses to reproduce, in a beautiful way, the painting by Georges de La Tour .
This is still a kind of direct message from Godard to Francis F. Coppola, as if the master were saying "what's the point of spending so much money, when it is possible to obtain even better results with so little?" ?'.
This is one of Godard's most beautiful short films, but unfortunately it is little known. For those interested, the short is available on YouTube.
Coppola was the one who financed the short, which cost just US$30,000.
However, Godard only finished the short in 2006.
The short features the participation of the great Italian director of photography Vittorio Storaro and the Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalowsky.
Konchalowsky reads a text about the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne regarding artistic creation, in which the French painter said he wanted to make the invisible become visible.
Godard critically shows the creation of an immense scenario, with many professionals involved, to reproduce, in Cinema, the painting 'Le Nouveau-Né' (The Newborn), by the French painter Georges de La Tour.
However, in the end, Godard makes it clear that it is not necessary to do something monumental to create a beautiful work of art, as he only uses a candle and two actresses to reproduce, in a beautiful way, the painting by Georges de La Tour .
This is still a kind of direct message from Godard to Francis F. Coppola, as if the master were saying "what's the point of spending so much money, when it is possible to obtain even better results with so little?" ?'.
This is one of Godard's most beautiful short films, but unfortunately it is little known. For those interested, the short is available on YouTube.