Chapter 17 Brief introduction to each chapter of "Film History" (Part 2)

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA, 3A, LA MONNAIE DE LABSOLU "Absolute Currency" (27 minutes) The title of this article is a reference to Andrea Malraux's book Absolute Currency.The voice beyond the times, the absolute value, the absolute currency.The film critiques the historical events of the 19th century from the perspective of documenting the conflict in Sarajevo in the 20th century.The production of film comes after photography, so is Manet, the father of photography, also the father of film?Godard takes us on a train in 1942 to find a past that will never disappear.Italian films wrote wonderful chapters after the war, "Travel in Italy", "Rome: Undefended City", "Road", "Lynx"...

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA, 3B, UNE VAGUE NOUVELLE "New Wave" (27 minutes) The "New Wave" was born in Henri Langlois' "French Film Archive".It is a museum of film, and it is also a museum of reality, where light is always shining.In the film, Truffaut's "Random" and Rossellini's "Jendac" intersect, and at the same time, the gambling scene in "Don't Touch the Cash" and the Christian scene in Pasolini's "The Hill of Miracles" are combined. Mixed up.Are real movies just movies that cannot be watched normally?Godard said that in the human heart, there are still many things that have not been discovered.Stroheim, Langlois, Hugo, they all kept exploring new waves.He paid tribute to those who pursued the new wave of cinema like him - Truffaut, Domi, Rossellini, Becker and others.

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA, 4A, LE CONTROLE DE LUNIVERS "Control the Universe" (28 minutes) This is a tribute to the great Hitchcock. It started to enter the theme from the scene when Godard was filming "Forever Mozart" in the strong wind.Godard believes: Those who are ambitious, those who dream of controlling the world - Peter the Great, Sith, Napoleon, Hitler, they all failed, but it is Hitchcock who controls the world, because he is a creation Characters of film mythology.The one that attacked the children, the "Cliff" where Cary Grant delivered milk bottles to John Fonda, the lighter that fell into the sewer in "The Stranger Passenger"...all of these are deep memories that will always remain in the audience's mind .

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA, 4B, LES SIGNES PARMI NOUS "Symbols Among Us" (37 minutes) The final chapter unfolds slowly in a peaceful atmosphere like a requiem.In life and in movies, symbols are everywhere. "Symbols Among Us" is the title of the work of the Swiss novelist Ferdinand Lamy, and it is also a story that Godard would like to reproduce on the screen.It involves "Americans in Paris", "Judex" and other business cards, as well as paintings by Picasso and Leonardo da Vinci, and also records the insults of the Jews by the German Nazis, as well as Charlotte's "Kerry". O——A Woman Belonging to History"...He actually combined those things that were absolutely impossible to put together in his own language.To use the title of a Bolles fable to describe it, it is: "a man who dreams of illusory dreams"...

Director/Editor: Jean-Luc Godard Starring/Narrator: Jean-Luc Godard, Juli Delpy, Sabina Assema, Alain Cooney, Juliette Binoche, Serge Darnay, Jean-Pierregues , André Malraux, Paul Cheron, Anna Marie Melville, etc. GAUMONT, PERIPHERIA, CANAL PLUS, LA SEPT, FR3, JLG FILMS, CNC, RTSR, VEGA FILMS, FEMIS/(C) GAUMONT 1998-2000