- The director shoots the film and gives instructions to the crew members.
- Godard shows how to create cinema without needing so much!
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 'One From the Heart'. Coppola financed the short, which cost just $30,000.
However, Godard only completed the short film in 2006.
The short features the participation of the great Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and the Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalowsky.
Konchalowsky reads a text about the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne about artistic creation, in which the French painter said he wanted to make the invisible become visible.
Godard shows, critically, 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 uses only a candle and two actresses to beautifully reproduce the painting by Georges de La Tour. .
This is a kind of direct message from Godard to Francis F. Coppola, as if the master were saying "what's the point of all this, what's the need to spend so much money when you can get even better results with so little ?'.
This is one of the most beautiful short films by Godard, but unfortunately it is little known. For those interested, the short is available on Youtube.
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