Film is over. Auteurs are out. Jean-Luc Godard says so, therefore we should listen.
"We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't," the grumpy grandfather of Nouvelle Vague told Fiachra Gibbons this week. "We had no idea, really ... with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur."
This, says Gibbons, is "the cartoon Godard we are familiar with: the Godard of the grand gesture" and this side of the great director - enigmatic, contrary, haughty - hasn't dulled with age. His latest work, Film Socialisme, a montage of link-less sights and sounds collected and crushed into 101 minutes is uncompromising, a "numbing assault on the eyes, brain and the buttocks". That's Gibbons talking, and he's a fan.
Whatever your take on Film Socialisme, there's no denying the legacy, nor the abrasive charm of its creator - a man who starts an interview attempting to solve Greece's financial problems ("The Greeks gave us logic … every time we use the word therefore, we have to pay 10 euros to Greece") and ends it by giving the interviewer an un-filmed script.
We owe Godard a lot. Oh … and we owe Greece 10 Euro.
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