2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye To Language 3D

#18. Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye To Language 3D

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 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. Ought to be one of the most experimental and irreverent uses of 3D technology yet.

Prediction: Can’t see this not playing in Cannes, and if Godard kept his mouth shut then it would obviously be in the Main Competition. The same went for Film Socialisme, but the filmmaker stated his preference for the Debussy theatre over the Lumiere, and requested that that film therefore play in Un Certain Regard, which he may well do again this year. (Note – this doesn’t really hold much water, since a) half of the Competition titles play for the press in the Debussy theatre anyway, thus I’m sure some sort of arrangement could be made in that regard, and b) Godard didn’t even bother showing up to the festival that year, so who cares what his favorite theatre is in my opinion.)