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Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard (Contempt) triumphantly returns to the screen with FILM SOCIALISME, "a remarkable and beautiful and challenging" (Glenn Kenny, MSN) essay on the state of Mediterranean life, culture and history.
It is split into three parts, the first set on a garish cruise ship traveling the Mediterranean Sea (the Costa Concordia). Godard contrasts the rich and conflicted history of the ship's ancient itinerary with the ostentatious gluttony of its well-to-do passengers. The second part descends on a struggling rural French rest stop, whose owners, seeking to change their fate, are running for office. It is their discontented children, though, who point towards an alternate future. Finally, the film closes in a gorgeous, aggrieved montage that acts as an idiosyncratic history of the past and future of the region.
Anticipating the Greek debt crisis and the Arab spring, FILM SOCIALISME "is both timeless and timely" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice), shot in shimmeringly beautiful HD, but also hurtling headlong into the socio-political crises of our times.
Original Release
05/19/2010
US Release
06/03/2011
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Jean-Marc Stehlé | Otto Goldberg (segment "Des choses comme ça") / Otto Goldberg |
Agatha Couture | Alissa (segment "Des choses comme ça") |
Mathias Domahidy | Mathias (segment "Des choses comme ça") |
Quentin Grosset | Ludovic (segment "Des choses comme ça") / Lucien |
Olga Riazanova | Olga - Russian secret agent (segment "Des choses comme ça") / Agent secret russe |
Maurice Sarfati | (segment "Des choses comme ça") |
Patti Smith | Self - Singer (segment "Des choses comme ça") / La chanteuse |
Lenny Kaye | Self - Guitarist (segment "Des choses comme ça") |
Bernard Maris | Self - Economist (segment "Des choses comme ça") |
Marie-Christine Bergier | Frieda von Salomon (segment "Des choses comme ça") |
Directors
Writers
Jean-Luc Godard, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Paul Curnier, Roland Dubillard, Hannah Arendt, Otto von Bismarck, Jean-Paul Sartre, Léon Brunschvicg, Jean Giraudoux, Jean Tardieu
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jean-Marc Stehlé | Otto Goldberg (segment "Des choses comme ça") / Otto Goldberg |
Agatha Couture | Alissa (segment "Des choses comme ça") |
Mathias Domahidy | Mathias (segment "Des choses comme ça") |
Quentin Grosset | Ludovic (segment "Des choses comme ça") / Lucien |
Olga Riazanova | Olga - Russian secret agent (segment "Des choses comme ça") / Agent secret russe |
Maurice Sarfati | (segment "Des choses comme ça") |
Patti Smith | Self - Singer (segment "Des choses comme ça") / La chanteuse |
Lenny Kaye | Self - Guitarist (segment "Des choses comme ça") |
Bernard Maris | Self - Economist (segment "Des choses comme ça") |
Marie-Christine Bergier | Frieda von Salomon (segment "Des choses comme ça") |
Nadège Beausson-Diagne | Constance (segment "Des choses comme ça") / Constance |
Bob Maloubier | Self - French secret agent (segment "Des choses comme ça") / Personne de la vraie vie |
Dominique Devals | (segment "Des choses comme ça") |
Alain Badiou | Self - Lecturer (segment "Des choses comme ça") / Le philosophe |
Elias Sanbar | Self - Haifan Historian (segment "Des choses comme ça") |
Catherine Tanvier | Catherine - Mother (segment "Quo vadis Europa") / La mère |
Christian Sinniger | Jean-Jacques Martin - Father (segment "Quo vadis Europa") / Le père |
Marine Battaggia | Florine "Flo" Martin (segment "Quo vadis Europa") |
Gulliver Hecq | Lucien "Lulu" Martin (segment "Quo vadis Europa") |
Elidan Arzoni | Catherine's friend (segment "Quo vadis Europa") |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ruth Waldburger | Executive Producer |
Sophie Sallin | Producer |
Alain Sarde | Producer |
Ruth Waldburger | Producer |