Goodbye to Language
Goodbye to Language French Adieu au Langage is a 2014 FrenchSwiss 3D experimental narrative essay film written and directed by JeanLuc Godard. It stars Hlose Godet, Kamel Abdeli, Richard Chevallier, Zo Bruneau, Jessica Erickson and Christian Grgori and was shot by cinematographer Fabrice Aragno. It is Godards 42nd feature film and 121st film or video project. In the Frenchspeaking parts of Switzerland where it was shot, the word adieu can mean both goodbye and hello. The film depicts a couple having an affair. The womans husband discovers the affair and the lover is killed. Two pairs of actors portray the couple and their actions repeat and mirror one another. Godards own dog Roxy Miville has a prominent role in the film and won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Like many of Godards films it includes numerous quotes and references to previous artistic, philosophical and scientific works, most prominently those of Jacques Ellul, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Mary Shelley.
The idea is simple A married woman and a single man meet They love, they argue, fists fly A dog strays between town and country The seasons pass The man and woman meet again The dog finds itself between them The other is in one, the one is in the other and they are three The former husband shatters everything A second film begins the same as the first, and yet not From the human race we pass to metaphor This ends in barking and a babys cries In the meantime, we will have seen people talking of the demise of the dollar, of truth in mathematics and of the death of a robin.Goodbye to Language is an experimental narrative that tells two similar versions of a couple having an affair. These two stories are namedNature andMetaphor, and they respectively focus on the couples Josette and Gdon and Ivitch and Marcus along with a dog Godards own dog Roxy. ........
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