Alone in an abandoned television studio, two militants have a discourse on language. Referring to spoken word as a weapon used by the establishment to confuse liberation movements, they deconstruct the meaning of sounds and images in an attempt to “return to zero” and experience the joy of learning.

Between 1960 and 1969, Godard made 17(!) features in a great burst of radical creativity. Le gai savoir, his final film of the 60s, is a work of pared-down invention and subversive pop montage, in which two beguiling icons of the New Wave (Jean-Pierre Léaud and Juliet Berto) take center stage.