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Original name: Godard Seul Le Cinéma
English name: Godard Cinema
Year: 2022
Run time: 110 minutes
Language: French
Type (Colour/Black & White): Colour
Country: France
Director: Cyril Leuthy
Producer: Cathy Palumbo, Victor Robert
Cast: Macha Meril, Thierry Jousse, Alain Bergala, Marina Vlady, Romain Goupil, David Faroult, Julie Delpy, Daniel Cohn Bendit, Gerard Martin, Nathalie Baye, Hanna Schygulla, Dominique Paini
Cinematographer: Gertrude Baillot
Editor: Phillipe Baillon, Cyril Leuthy
Sound Designer: Guillaume Valeix, Nicolas Paturle
Music Composer: Thomas Dappelo
Production Company: 10.7 Productions
World Sales: Mediawan Rights
Cyril Leuthy graduated from FEMIS in 2002. He then began a successful career as a documentary editor and worked on films such as Mark Kidel’s Becoming Cary Grant (2016). His first film as a director, La nuit s'achève (The Night is Fading), won the prize for the most innovative first film at Visions du Réel 2015 before it went on to participate in many international festivals. He has since directed several documentaries, including mainly artist portraits such as Melville le dernier samouraï (2019) and Rendez-vous with Maurice Chevalier (2021).
Jean-Luc Godard is cinema, its quintessence. He has just turned 91, and made more than 140 films. He is a public figure as much as a man surrounded by mystery and sees the creative act as a necessary act of criticism and deconstruction. “I always start from the negative. I am a positive man who starts from the negative,” he says. He is an artist who reinvents himself tirelessly, and inevitably destroys himself. Godard seul le cinéma takes us beyond the clichés of a myth that has sometimes become caricatural, to meet a man more sentimental than it seems, a man inhabited, sometimes surpassed, by his art.
