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 no longer even speak the same language.
See for yourself, but this 2D version is not safe for work due to some full-frontal female nudity.
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It looks like a test in form above all else and less traditionally essayistic than I expected. I'm curious as to whether it's going to be that incoherent or whether that's just a poor trailer.
However, I love Godard unconditionally, no matter how maddening some of his movies can be.
Fox has the U.S. rights for Goodbye to Language.
No release dates yet.
Here's the poetic version of synopsis from Wild Bunch.
Short synopsis
A married woman and a single man meet.
They love, they argue, fists fly.
A dog strays between town and country.
The seasons pass.
A second film begins…
Long synopsis
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 baby's 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.
