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Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma

Episode aired May 24, 1986
1h 30m

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6.3/10

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Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma (1986)

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Filmmaker Gaspard Bazin is preparing a new feature film, so he urgently needs to find funding. And, although he asked for help from a fashion producer, Bazin is now in the lurch, because of ... Read allFilmmaker Gaspard Bazin is preparing a new feature film, so he urgently needs to find funding. And, although he asked for help from a fashion producer, Bazin is now in the lurch, because of how complicated the money has become. His wife, Eurydice, dreams of being a movie star, so... Read allFilmmaker Gaspard Bazin is preparing a new feature film, so he urgently needs to find funding. And, although he asked for help from a fashion producer, Bazin is now in the lurch, because of how complicated the money has become. His wife, Eurydice, dreams of being a movie star, so, between the producer and the director will create a game to please the woman.

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Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
Writers
- James Hadley Chase(novel)
- Jean-Luc Godard(scenario)
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- 1 nomination

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Jean-Pierre Mocky

Jean Almereyda

Marie Valera

Eurydice

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Gaspard Bazin

Caroline Champetier

Carol

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(as Les chômeurs de l'A.N.P.E.)

Jean-Luc Godard

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Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
Writers
- James Hadley Chase(novel)
- Jean-Luc Godard(scenario) (uncredited)
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The fact that the character played by Jean-Pierre Léaud is called Bazin is a clear tribute to the French critic André Bazin (1918-1958).

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Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une vague nouvelle (1999)

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Written and Performed by Leonard Cohen

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3/10

Not pure BS but still unbearable BS

Watched this at the opening of the UNDERDOX Film Festival 2017 in Munich, where it was the opening film.

It is a very experimental film, with a lot of dissolve transitions, rewinding, music loops - nice little playful ideas. It is about a production company and the production process and focuses on the people involved. This film is very abstract, there is not straightforward storytelling. Even though I like experimental, abstract films - as long as they are good - I found this film highly exhausting, in a bad way. It is boring, it exhausts itself in its meta levels, the intended (funny) overacting of the actors becomes too repetitive - it is a nuance. This should only be watched by people who will blindly believe that everything Godard made is brilliant and who take pride from having watched this hard to find, formerly lost and rediscovered, supposed gem.

In a nutshell: this film is not pure BS, because there certainly remains some quality in it, and the rough idea and intend have the odeur of a somewhat worthy abstraction, but it is overall still unbearable BS.

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