French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard died in Switzerland this week at the age of 91. One of his last films was 2014’s “Goodbye to Language,” the 3D portrait of a relationship that starred actors Kamel Abdelli and Héloïse Godet. Here, Godet shares her memories from the set with IndieWire, along with some exclusive photos from her personal collection.
I remember, while we were shooting some scenes of “Goodbye to Language” in Jean-Luc Godard’s own house, the protocol had us enter through the backdoor, which they called the “entrance of the artists.” There, we discovered a cellar converted into an editing room, where his assistant and camera technician Fabrice Aragno worked every day, before and after shooting. He had to synchronize the footage captured by all five cameras.
When we heard Godard enter his house through the main door, with a big wrought-iron key, we joined him in his small living room.
I remember, while we were shooting some scenes of “Goodbye to Language” in Jean-Luc Godard’s own house, the protocol had us enter through the backdoor, which they called the “entrance of the artists.” There, we discovered a cellar converted into an editing room, where his assistant and camera technician Fabrice Aragno worked every day, before and after shooting. He had to synchronize the footage captured by all five cameras.
When we heard Godard enter his house through the main door, with a big wrought-iron key, we joined him in his small living room.
- 9/13/2022
- by Héloïse Godet
- Indiewire
Jean-Luc Godard in his youthful days. Jean-Luc Godard solution for the Greek debt crisis: 'Therefore' copyright payments A few years ago, Nouvelle Vague filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, while plugging his Film Socialisme, chipped in with a surefire solution for the seemingly endless – and bottomless – Greek debt crisis. In July 2011, Godard told The Guardian's Fiachra Gibbons: The Greeks gave us logic. We owe them for that. It was Aristotle who came up with the big 'therefore'. As in, 'You don't love me any more, therefore ...' Or, 'I found you in bed with another man, therefore ...' We use this word millions of times, to make our most important decisions. It's about time we started paying for it. If every time we use the word therefore, we have to pay 10 euros to Greece, the crisis will be over in one day, and the Greeks will not have to sell the Parthenon to the Germans.
- 6/30/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel in “The End of the Tour”
Champaign, Illinois isn’t quite Cannes or Park City, Utah, but the film festival hosted there annually in Roger Ebert’s name is as charming as they come. Now Ebertfest, in its 17th year, has announced its lineup of films prior to its four day run in April.
It was previously announced that Jean-Luc Godard’s acclaimed Goodbye to Language 3D would be the opening night film. Now Chaz Ebert has penned a touching love letter to her late husband detailing the choices they’ve made for the festival in his absence.
Among them are James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour, Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes, Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting On Existence, Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood, and special screenings of A Bronx Tale with Robert De Niro and the 1926 silent film The Son of the Sheik...
Champaign, Illinois isn’t quite Cannes or Park City, Utah, but the film festival hosted there annually in Roger Ebert’s name is as charming as they come. Now Ebertfest, in its 17th year, has announced its lineup of films prior to its four day run in April.
It was previously announced that Jean-Luc Godard’s acclaimed Goodbye to Language 3D would be the opening night film. Now Chaz Ebert has penned a touching love letter to her late husband detailing the choices they’ve made for the festival in his absence.
Among them are James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour, Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes, Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting On Existence, Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood, and special screenings of A Bronx Tale with Robert De Niro and the 1926 silent film The Son of the Sheik...
- 3/26/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Read More: 'Goodfellas' 25th Anniversary Reunion To Close 2015 Tribeca Film Festival Chaz Ebert and the folks behind Ebertfest have announced the full lineup for the 2015 festival. "The End Of the Tour," about a journalist's road trip with the late author David Foster Wallace, will be among the films screening at this year's Ebertfest in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where Wallace was raised. Star Jason Segel and director James Ponsoldt ("The Spectacular Now") will be in attendance. Other guests include producer Jon Kilik and actor-writer Chazz Palminteri, who will attend the screening of 1993's "A Bronx Tale," and actress Héloïse Godet, star of festival-opener "Goodbye To Language," the first 3-D film to be shown at Ebertfest. This year's festival is dedicated to writer-director-actor-Ghostbuster Harold Ramis, who died last year. On Wednesday night there will be a tribute to him and his work, followed by a...
- 3/26/2015
- by Elizabeth Logan
- Indiewire
The upcoming 17th annual Roger Ebert Film Festival, better known as Ebertfest, will open April 15 with Jean-Luc Godard's radical 3D experiment "Goodbye to Language," with star Héloïse Godet in attendance. The fest will also present a special screening of director Robert De Niro's 1993 "A Bronx Tale," with producer Jon Kilik and star and screenwriter Chazz Palminteri attending. In his four-star review, Ebert wrote, “'A Bronx Tale' is a very funny movie sometimes, and very touching at other times. It is filled with life and colorful characters and great lines of dialogue, and De Niro, in his debut as a director, finds the right notes as he moves from laughter to anger to tears. What's important about the film is that it's about values.” Read More: Why Theaters Are Refusing to Book Godard's Moneymaking 3D 'Goodbye to Language' A few of the 1,000 Festival Passes for sale at www.
- 3/12/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Just in time for Halloween, Daniel Radcliffe gets some special powers and couple of appendages growing from his temples in Radius’ Horns, which will be this week’s biggest rollout among specialty newcomers. The title received a warm welcome at a Cinema Society event attended by its stars this week in New York. This week’s newbies are dominated by nonfiction fare, though with some exceptions. Kino Lorber is opening French/Swiss maestro Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye To Language following a successful festival run. It has been critically acclaimed, and the company is expecting it to be a box office winner too. The 2014 Best Documentary winners from South by Southwest and Tribeca are going head-to-head in their theatrical debuts. Radius’ The Great Invisible (SXSW) opened in limited release Wednesday in an exclusively theatrical rollout, and The Orchard is bowing Point And Shoot (Tribeca) in a single NYC run. Submarine Deluxe...
- 10/31/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Jean-Luc Godard, and more specifically his 1965 film Pierrot le Fou, literally changed my life, and set me on a path toward intense and everlasting cinephilia. Since the first time I saw that film, it has remained my favorite movie of all time and Godard my favorite director. So when I finally had the chance to see Film socialisme in 2010, his first feature film in six years, I had high hopes that the old master was going to yet again bring something new to the table. Those hopes were assuredly met. I considered the film the best of that year and still believe it is an astonishing movie, rife with so much of what defines Godard in this is fourth(?), fifth(?), in any case, current, phase of his career.
The first words of Film socialisme, at least according to the “Navajo English” subtitles, are “money – public – water.” Literally, this refers to...
The first words of Film socialisme, at least according to the “Navajo English” subtitles, are “money – public – water.” Literally, this refers to...
- 10/25/2014
- by Jeremy Carr
- SoundOnSight
Adieu au langage (Goodbye to Language)
Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard
France, 2014
When I finally got around to seeing Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, the thing I kept saying to people was, “Isn’t it funny that this film needs to be seen in 3D and yet itself does not justify 3D’s place within cinema?” I still hold my “it’s fine” opinion on that film, denying its status as an Avatar-esque game changer, and I thought I’d have to keep searching for that. Luckily, I found it right off the bat at the New York Film Festival: Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language redefines not only 3D in film, but quite possibly film itself.
Admittedly, I am not a huge fan of Godard (despite his masterwork Vivre sa Vie being in my top ten favorites of all time). His rhetorical style, abrasive and uncompromising, has always alienated me.
Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard
France, 2014
When I finally got around to seeing Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, the thing I kept saying to people was, “Isn’t it funny that this film needs to be seen in 3D and yet itself does not justify 3D’s place within cinema?” I still hold my “it’s fine” opinion on that film, denying its status as an Avatar-esque game changer, and I thought I’d have to keep searching for that. Luckily, I found it right off the bat at the New York Film Festival: Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language redefines not only 3D in film, but quite possibly film itself.
Admittedly, I am not a huge fan of Godard (despite his masterwork Vivre sa Vie being in my top ten favorites of all time). His rhetorical style, abrasive and uncompromising, has always alienated me.
- 10/3/2014
- by Kyle Turner
- SoundOnSight
Following his first 3D effort – the omnibus 3X3D which closed the Cannes Critics’ Week – the French New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard‘s upcoming Adieu au language (Goodbye to Language) is apparently also shot in 3D. The film includes the main protagonists Héloise Godet, Kamel Abdeli, Richard Chevalier, Jessica Erickson and Zoe Bruneau and is expected to premiere at next year’s Cannes Film Festival. Little is known about Adieu au language‘s plot details, but according to one of the lead actors, Daniel Ludwig his role is about ‘a man who’s angry at his wife because she’s met another man on a park bench and they...
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- 7/5/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Goodbye to Language (Adieu au langage)
Director/Writer: Jean-Luc Godard
U.S. Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Héloise Godet, Jessica Erickson and Kamel Abdeli
He has always been versatile with the form, questioned cinema’s shape and its role, so the curious such as myself wonder how Jean-Luc Godard will he challenge the 3D form and how he’ll appropriate it? Godard in 3D is something I definitely want to see, and apparently some buyers at a major studio think so to (aka the most bizarre pick-up of 2012).
Gist: 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...
Director/Writer: Jean-Luc Godard
U.S. Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Héloise Godet, Jessica Erickson and Kamel Abdeli
He has always been versatile with the form, questioned cinema’s shape and its role, so the curious such as myself wonder how Jean-Luc Godard will he challenge the 3D form and how he’ll appropriate it? Godard in 3D is something I definitely want to see, and apparently some buyers at a major studio think so to (aka the most bizarre pick-up of 2012).
Gist: 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...
- 1/14/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Coming off the divisive Film Socialisme, French New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard is not simply resting on his laurels. The Breathless director is already in production in his next film, titled Goodbye to Language and the production company Wild Bunch have revealed the currently shooting film will be in 3D, along with information on the cast and first sales poster for the film they’re taking to the Cannes market.
The cast is made up of French actors Héloise Godet, Zoe Bruneau, Kamel Abdelli, Richard Chevalier and Jessica Erickson. While there is no official synopsis, Godard previously expressed interest in 3D back in 2010, saying he likes “when new techniques are introduced. Because it doesn’t have any rules yet.” He went on to say this film will be about ”a man and his wife who no longer speak the same language. The dog they take on walks then intervenes and speaks.
The cast is made up of French actors Héloise Godet, Zoe Bruneau, Kamel Abdelli, Richard Chevalier and Jessica Erickson. While there is no official synopsis, Godard previously expressed interest in 3D back in 2010, saying he likes “when new techniques are introduced. Because it doesn’t have any rules yet.” He went on to say this film will be about ”a man and his wife who no longer speak the same language. The dog they take on walks then intervenes and speaks.
- 5/8/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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