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Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (Grandeur et décadence d’un petit commerce de cinéma), dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland / France 1986, 92 min.
Ostensibly based on James Hadley Chase’s 1964 novel The Soft Centre, Godard's submission to television anthology Série Noire, centres upon a film director (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and producer (Jean-Pierre Mocky), adapting the same novel for a haphazard production starring the producer's wife.
Elements of Chase's pulp fiction remain but at its heart Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company is a typically reflexive, philosophic and freewheeling exploration of the always-precarious relationship between television, film, and video.
Elements of Chase's pulp fiction remain but at its heart Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company is a typically reflexive, philosophic and freewheeling exploration of the always-precarious relationship between television, film, and video.
08:30 pm
Wed, 18 Dec 2024
Cinema 1
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