2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway & Edgar Pera’s 3x3D

#75. Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, & Edgar Pêra’s 3x3D

Gist: Three directors world-renowned directors explore 3D and its evolution in the field of cinema. Jean-Luc Godard’s dive into the controversial format has been on every cinephile’s must-see list since it was announced a couple of years ago, while Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pera make ostensibly their first stabs at the third dimension in this omnibus project, in which all three films are set to explore the evolution of the spectator and time. Godard’s The Three Disasters is a film about the historical memory of the 3D; Greenaway’s Just in Time One crosses space with 900 years of compiled history; and Pera’s Cinesapiens will be a short history of the Cinema viewer, from the cave to silent cinema, through sound to color and from stereoscopic 3D to holocinema.

Prediction: À la last year’s atrocious, near genre-ending septet, 7 Days in Havana, we expect this to accompany Godard’s solo feature in Un Certain Regard. (Unless J-LG has gotten over his semi-recent phobia of the Grand Théâtre Lumière, which prompted his last feature, Film Socialisme, to screen out of the Main Competition.) They’ll have the polarization glasses on hand anyway for Gatsby, so may as well kill as many birds with those stones as possible.