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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #120. Jean-Luc Godard’s Scénario

Published on January 11, 2023

Scénario

He left us on September 13th of last year and what remains are some possible gifts. Word is that Scénario could indeed be a final feature length essay film along the lines of Chris Marker’s La Jetée. Details on the film will likely be provided when it actually premieres – most likely at the Cannes Film Festival. His editor mentioned “I need to glue these images to scripts”. It’ll undeniably be a beautiful Jean-Luc Godard post-script.

Gist: Unknown.

Release Date/Prediction: Cannes Film Festival – not in competition.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).