Biography Dox

Jean-Luc Godard is cinema, its quintessence. He has just turned 91, and made more than 140 films. Where does his aura come from? From legendary films of course, but also from Godard himself. He is a public figure as much as a man surrounded by mystery. It is not easy to seize such a sacred, enigmatic monster. Godard’s itinerary follows only one direction: a constant renewal of his art. He sees the creative act as a necessary act of criticism and deconstruction. The artist reinvents himself tirelessly, and inevitably destroys himself. This portrait takes us beyond the clichés of a myth that has sometimes become caricatural, to meet a man more sentimental than it seems, a man inhabited, sometimes surpassed, by his art.

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