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TRAILER 2008: UNE CATASTROPH

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The festival trailer Une catastrophe was realized by director Jean-Luc Godard and will be screened from September 18 in 100 selected Austrian cinemas as well as during the course of the Viennale program from October 17 to 29.

In order to visualize how history functions and why mankind, talented to beauty, so willingly works on its own (not at all beautiful) abolition, we just briefly have to change perspectives. And that is Jean-Luc Godards trick: he cannot separate politics from art, as he sees the one reflected in the other. He demonstrates how Howard Hawks is connected with Marx, and the Shoah with Bach. In this sense, Une catastrophe, Godards trailer for the Viennale 2008, is extremely complex and at the same time completely serene, as if it had all the time in the world: Following in the tradition of Godards opus magnum, Histoire(s) du cinéma, the art and film-historical mini assemblage takes us from a dramatic moment in Eisensteins Battleship Potemkin (1925) and garish-colored video war images to an extended kissing scene, played in super slow motion, from the famous Berlin romance Menschen am Sonntag (1929). On the same note: the groaning of female tennis players serving or returning balls, a Low German love poem («Dat du min Leevsten büst») and the beginning of Robert Schumanns piano cycle «Scenes from Childhood». Une catastrophe has an air of resignation but is not entirely without hope: From a perspective of war, love can be reached via a detour of art in 63 seconds.


Jean-Luc Godard makes short film for Vienna movie festival

Celebrated French-Swiss "New Wave" film director Jean-Luc Godard was persuaded out of retirement to direct a publicity trailer for Vienna's international film festival, the event's director said.
In an interview with the Austrian magazine Profile to be published on Monday, Hans Hurch said he had been "trying hard for 10 years" to get the 78-year-old to contribute to the festival.
Godard's first film "Breathless," starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, is considered a groundbreaking work of the French New Wave of the late 1950s and 1960s.
Godard now lives in semi-retirement in Switzerland.
"A Catastrophe" lasts 63 seconds and includes excerpts from Russian director Sergei Eisentein's film "The Battleship Potemkin," a traditional German love song and a piano piece by Schumann.
Hurch said it would be shown in Austrian cinemas from mid-September. The festival, the Viennale, runs from October 17-29.
After the success of his first film, Godard cemented his reputation with "Contempt," "Pierrot le Fou" and "Two or Three Things I Know About Her."

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