TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24

20:30
Masculine Feminine (1966)
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
105 minutes
In French with English subtitles

With Masculin Fminin, ruthless stylist and iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard examines "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola," through a gang of restless youths engaged in hopeless love affairs with music, revolution, and each other.

Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud) is a 21 year-old man who has just completed his mandatory national service in the French army, and, disillusioned with life, finds himself writing in cafés. At one café in particular, he meets Madeleine (Chantal Goya), an adorable girl who is an aspiring pop singer and is able to get Paul a job at the magazine she occasionally works for. Soon after, she succeeds to Paul's advances and they embark on a relationship. During their time together, Paul, who is becoming an increasingly vocal political activist, struggles with Madeleine's apparent apathy and complete indifference to social and economic issues plaguing France and the world at large. Through this relationship Godard fashions a candid and wildly free-form examination of youth culture in throbbing 1960s Paris.

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22:30

JLG/JLG - autoportrait de dcembre
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
54 minutes
In French with English subtitles

This is Godard's self portrait which shouldn't be confused with an autobiography. This poetic film reflects how Godard feels about several subjects which include death and cinema...things that are closer to his soul than biographical details ever could be. Therefore Godard does not recount the story of his life, but instead he uses film to present himself the way a painter would in a self-portrait....by making a collage of his loves and fears.

Although he doesn't bring out any biographical information, he does refer to his earlier films in the haunting images of JLG/JLG. As in many of Godard's later films, the dialogue and voice-overs create a poetic montage of overlapping images and quotations from works of literature, science, and philosophy. Godard cuts and pastes these quotations into passages based on the themes of art, film, and politics. Much of JLG/JLG was shot in his house in Lausanne, and the rest of it was shot outside his home set in the region's winstry lakes and forests which provide a beautiful setting for the film's episodes and Godard's autumnal reflections on art, life and cinema.

And once again it should be noted that this is an extremely rare screening of this film....!

CINEMA DERIVE
OVERTOOM 301
Time: 20:30 (doors open at 20:00)
Membership 4 Euros for the evening



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