In honor of Jean-Luc Godard, who died on Tuesday September 13 at the age of 91, Arte, France 5 and Canal+ will spoil their programs in the coming days by offering some of the director’s iconic films.
Film director Jean-Luc Godard died on Tuesday, September 13 at the age of 91. This figure of French cinema, who was particularly involved in dynamiting cinema codes with his comrades, the New Wave, became famous in 1959 with A bout de souffle, his first feature film, which met with great critics and audiences.
As a tribute to the director, some French television stations are going to change their programming in the coming days by offering some remarkable films from Jean-Luc Godard’s career.
Arte publishes Contempt
This Wednesday, September 14th, Arte will air at 20:55 Contempt, a film released in 1963 with Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccolt. Successful screenwriter Paul Javali is working on the adaptation of “Odyssey”, which is to be directed by Fritz Lang. He notices that Lang is at odds with Prokosh, an American producer. The latter wants to finance an epic film, while the director wants to make a psychological film.
The channel will then show Prénom Carmen at 10.40pm with Marushka Dettmers and Jacques Bonaface, before switching to Le livre d’image at 0am, the film that won it a special Palme d’Or in 2018. From today until March 13. In 2023, Arte.tv can also find the feature film The Married Woman, released in 1964.
France Télévisions honors him
On the France Télévisions side, France 5 is broadcasting this Friday, September 16, from 9pm. Breathless One of the most iconic feature films of the famous filmmaker. Directed by Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger and Jean Seberg, the film follows Michel Poicard, a young man who steals a car in Marseille, killing a policeman on the way.
Arriving in Paris, he meets an American student named Patricia, with whom he plans to run away to Rome. But when his photo is published in the newspapers and he is hunted, his fate changes. The channel is therefore rebroadcasting its film Les vestiges du jour, originally scheduled for Friday evening.
Canal+ salutes the memory of the director
Canal+ Group will also pay tribute to the memory of Jean-Luc Godard. Thus, the Ciné+ Classic channel will dedicate the Saturday evening of September 17 to the filmmaker. At 20:50 you can find Pierrot le Fou in which John Paul Belmondo He plays the main character.
Ferdinand, married to a rich woman, is bored. During the party, he meets Mariana, a student he knew five years ago. After leaving his wife, he falls in love with a beauty and settles down with her. Involved in murky affairs, Marian forces the couple into hiding.
The channel will then continue the evening with A Women is a Women at 10.45pm, followed by Alphaville, the quirky adventure of Lemmy Caution at 12.10pm. In addition to this tribute selection, almost 30 films are already available on VOD via myCANAL, such as Le Mépris, Vivre sa vie and Les ponts de Sarajevo.
Source: allocine
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