Article: Jean-Luc Godard: Son + Image. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York)

He barely makes it onto the screen. While most of the frame is taken up with an office setting--a desk, a lamp, some chairs and shelves--the world famous filmmaker intrudes only so far as the screen's left edge, and provisionally at that. A hand darts in and out of view, flicking a cigarette toward the ashtray on the desk. On the soundtrack, you hear the familiar baritone, pebbly in texture, speaking in monotone bursts. The year is 1976; the place is Grenoble. Jean-Luc Godard is sneaking into view. During his New Wave period, Godard had preferred to let the likes of Jean-Paul Belmondo stand in for him on screen. During the Maoist period of the Dziga Vertov Group (roughly ...

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