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Jean-Luc Godard: The Ultimate Collection

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Number of Discs
14

Release Date
14/07/2008

Studio
Optimum Home Entertainment

format
DVD / Box Set

Duration
1190

Certificate UK
15

Description

13 classic films from legendary director, Jean-Luc Godard. In 'Le Mepris' (1963), aspiring playwright Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) finds himself caught between the creative director (Fritz Lang, playing himself) and the crass producer Prokosch (Jack Palance) on a movie version of Homer's 'The Odyssey'. While the director wants to faithfully re-create Homer's world, the producer waves his chequebook and wants more mermaids. When Paul finds himself swayed by the power of the producer's money, he finds his wife Camille (Brigitte Bardot) begins to regard him with increasing contempt. In 'Alphaville' (1965), private eye Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is catapulted into space and ends up in Alphaville, a city run by domineering scientist Dr von Braun (Howard Vernon). After Caution sees his chief contact being killed, he becomes determined to strike at Alphaville's cold heart: a powerful computer system that stamps out all traces of individuality and emotion in the populace it controls. In 'Passion' (1982), a Polish director is making a film called 'Passion', recreating in tableaux vivants a series of celebrated paintings by Goya, Ingres, Delacroix and Rembrandt. While doing so, the director is having an affair with the owner of the French motel where he and the crew are staying. Her husband has to cope with a labour dispute at his factory led by a female worker. Meanwhile, money for the film is running out and the backers are complaining that there is no story. 'A Bout De Souffle' (1959) is the tale of the brief love affair between petty criminal Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and young American student Patricia (Jean Seberg). Michel has killed a motorcycle cop and is now hiding out in Patricia's Paris apartment but the police are getting closer and, as Michel falls deeper in love with Patricia, his time also gets shorter and shorter. In 'Made in USA' (1966), journalist Paula Nelson (Anna Karina) arrives in Atlantic City in search of her missing ex-lover. She soon discovers that he has been murdered by an unknown assassin, and begins to suspect that he was involved in some political intrigue. In her quest to uncover the truth, she meets a sequence of shady characters from gun-toting gangsters to corrupt police officers. In 'Pierrot Le Fou' (1965), Ferdinand (Belmondo) leaves his wife and child and runs off with the babysitter Marianne (Karina). The pair head south to find Marianne's brother, with Ferdinand getting caught up in Marianne's crimes along the way as they both spiral toward destruction. In 'Une Femme Est Une Femme' (1961), nightclub stripper Angela (Karina) wants to have a baby but her lover Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy) refuses to co-operate. Angela threatens to get pregnant by the first man that comes along and Emile suggests his friend Alfred (Belmondo), who is in love with Angela. In 'La Chinoise' (1967), five philosophy students, ardent supporters of Maoist political doctrine, make the decision to mount a terrorist campaign to establish a strictly Maoist communist state. Godard underplays their fanaticism by satirising their petty obsession with all the trappings of their political affiliation, including their love of political posters, their need to each own a copy of Mao's Little Red Book, and their slavish chanting of communist slogans. 'Le Petit Soldat' (1966) follows Bruno (Michel Subor), a disillusioned young deserter who becomes involved in the French nationalist movement despite his lack of deep political beliefs. Under orders, he kills an Algerian sympathiser and is then captured and tortured. When he meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman, Veronika Dreyer (Karina), he does not realise that she is fighting for the other side. 'Detective' (1985) is a thriller set in an old Parisian hotel populated with extraordinary characters, including the house detective, who is still trying to solve a murder from years before. 'Notre Musique' (2004) is an experimental drama which uses a three act structure to explore the nature of politics and art during a symposium hosted by a French-Jewish academic in Sarajevo about the question of Palestine and the conflict with Israel. In 'Helas Pur Moi' (1993), at a Swiss lakeside resort, a book publisher investigates a mysterious tale of a god-like being who supposedly entered the body of a man to make love to his wife. Finally, in 'Eloge De L'Amour' (2001), Edgar (Bruno Putzulu) is a young man putting together an art project about the four stages of love. He meets a woman named Berthe (Cecile Camp) who seems to be perfect for the lead role, but she gives him the strange feeling that they might have met before. The film then flashes back to a period two years before, when Edgar visited Brittany and met an old couple who had been members of the Resistance and who were currently negotiating to sell their story to Steven Spielberg.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Producer: Georges de Beauregard
Producer: Carlo Ponti
Producer: Andre Michelin
Producer: Ruth Waldburger
Producer: Alain Sarde
Writer: Jean-Luc Godard
Writer: Genevieve Cluny
Music: Georges Delerue
Music: Paul Misraki
Music: Antoine Duhamel
Music: Michel Legrand
Music: Maurice Leroux
Music: Ketil Bjornstad
Music: David Darling
Music: Georges van Parys
Music: Maurice Jaubert
Music: Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Music: Arvo Pärt
Actor: Brigitte Bardot
Actor: Jack Palance
Actor: Michel Piccoli
Actor: Giorgia Moll
Actor: Fritz Lang
Actor: Jean-Luc Godard
Actor: Linda Veras
Actor: Raoul Coutard
Actor: Eddie Constantine
Actor: Howard Vernon
Actor: Michel Delahaye
Actor: Anna Karina
Actor: Jean-Andre Fieschi
Actor: Akim Tamiroff
Actor: Jean-Louis Comolli
Actor: Laszlo Szabo
Actor: Christa Lang
Actor: Jean-Pierre Léaud
Actor: Isabelle Huppert
Actor: Hanna Schygulla
Actor: Jerzy Radziwilowicz
Actor: Jean-Francois Stévenin
Actor: Jean-Paul Belmondo
Actor: Jean Seberg
Actor: Daniel Boulanger
Actor: Michel Fabre
Actor: Jean-Pierre Melville
Actor: Van Doude
Actor: Claude Mansard
Actor: Lilliane Robin
Actor: Henri-Jacques Huet
Actor: Marianne Faithfull
Actor: Ernest Menzer
Actor: Kyoko Kosaka
Actor: Yves Afonso
Actor: Marc Dudicourt
Actor: Remo Forlani
Voice: Jean-Luc Godard
Actor: Raymond Devos
Actor: Samuel Fuller
Actor: Graziella Galvani
Actor: Dirk Sanders
Actor: Jean-Claude Brialy
Actor: Catherine Demongeot
Actor: Marie Dubois
Actor: Jeanne Moreau
Actor: Nicole Paquin
Actor: Marion Sarraut
Actor: Anne Wiazemsky
Actor: Juliet Berto
Actor: Michel Semeniako
Actor: Lex De Bruijin
Actor: Omar Diop
Actor: Blandine Jeanson
Actor: Michel Subor
Actor: Paul Beauvais
Actor: Georges de Beauregard
Actor: Nathalie Baye
Actor: Johnny Hallyday
Actor: Claude Brasseur
Actor: Laurent Terzieff
Actor: Alain Cuny
Actor: Sarah Adler
Actor: Nade Dieu
Actor: Rony Kramer
Actor: Simon Eine
Actor: Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Actor: George Aguilar
Actor: Aline Schulmann
Actor: Bruno Putzulu
Actor: Cecile Camp
Actor: Claude Baigneres
Actor: Philippe Loyrette
Actor: Audrey Klebaner
Actor: Mark Hunter
Actor: Jeremy Lippmann
Actor: Bruno Mesrine
Actor: Serge Spira

Main Format
DVD

Keyword Index
Jean-Luc Godard: The Ultimate Collection|Brigitte Bardot

Alternative Title
Le Mepris/Alphaville/Passion/A Bout De Souffle/Made in USA...

Colour
Col & B/W

Region
Region 2

Extras 2
Languages(s): French, Subtitles: English, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Dolby Stereo, Dolby Mono

Extras 3
Documentaries: 'The Dinosaur and the Baby' - featurette by Andre S. Labarthe and Janine Bazin, 'Jean-Luc As Seen By Luc - short by Luc Moullet, 'Godard, Love, Poetry' - documentary by Luc Lagier, 'Charlotte et Son Jules' - short film by Jean-Luc Godard, Interviews: Anna Karina

Catalogue Number
OPTD1224