Goodbye to Language
Essential Documentaries
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1h 9m
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard | 70 mins | 2014
An innovator to the end, Godard’s penultimate feature finds him experimenting with the possibilities of digital 3D, using the technology to plot the disintegration of both a couple’s relationship and the images of the relationship. A film of unprecedented images, profound insights into cinematic illusion, and stunts—like a dog’s-eye tour of the world—that only Godard would dare.
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