Le Gai Savoir
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1h 32m
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard | 92 mins | 1969
A pivotal film poised between Godard’s narrative films of the ’60s and radical Dziga Vertov Group works of the ’70s, "Le Gai Savoir" is a work of didactic filmed theater, with Jean-Pierre Léaud and Juliet Berto performing on a black soundstage lit by a single floodlight.
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