Scénarios

synopsis

The last film, which Godard completed the day before his assisted suicide in Switzerland in September 2022, refers in its title to the fact that a work of art is both a result and a process, and that its essence is at once finite and infinite. The ideas condensed into an assemblage of images and texts are divided into two identical segments. The second, however, switches from the artistic abstract to the earthy concreteness of reality at the end, showing a half-naked Godard sitting on a bed and paraphrasing Sartre's text. In his final self-portrait, the artist contrasts the passing body with the immortality of thought, transforming life and death into an endless artistic gesture.

“He’s filming himself transcribing Jean-Paul Sartre’s double logical and witty apologue on non-fingers: thus ends Scénarios, as it began, with a repetition, the figure of eternal return, the moment where time, which has been the great – if not unique – question of cinema, will have ceased to flow.”

Source: Roadstead

biography

Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) was a pioneer of the French New Wave, a political activist, an experimentator and one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century. He lived in Switzerland since the 1970s. During six decades he made over one hundred and forty works. This year, IDFF Ji.hlava presents in the section Transparent Being: Anne-Marie Miéville the films he co-directed with his wife, France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children, The Old Place, Here and Elsewhere, The Darty Report.

more about film

director:	Jean-Luc Godard
producer:	Jean-Luc Godard