Fragments of Conversations with Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard probably doesn’t need any further introduction. The enfant terrible of French film has reached retirement age a long time ago, but this doesn’t prevent him from continuing to reinvent himself and to seek new challenges within filmmaking – and the fringes of the medium. In this dialogue film he utters his thoughts about everything from politics, history and film to more diffuse topics such as ‘time’ and ‘images’. The conversations – with people such as Dominique Païni, Jean Narboni, André S. Labarthe, Jean-Marie Straub, Danielle Huillet and Christophe Kantcheff – are recorded in the director’s own home in Rolle, in his studio, and in front of students at the Fresnoy art school as well as in the exhibition spaces of the Centre Pompidou. —CPH:DOX (International Documentary Film Festival)