Détective

22 October, 2018 - 19:00
Cinematek, Brussels

An initiative of CINEMATEK and Courtisane, in collaboration with Le Service de Culture cinématographique (SCC).

On the occasion of this program, Courtisane, Sabzian and Cinematek have collected a series of writings and interviews in a small-edition publication (French/English).

Détective

Jean-Luc Godard
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CH, FR
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1985
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35mm
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colour
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98'

One woman, two men, a love story, a murder, a boxing match, the mafia: a film commissioned by producer Alain Sarde, who wanted to recover the money he’d invested in Godard’s previous film, Je vous salue, Marie. “Détective is a trailer before being a film. A movie trailer regarded as art on commission: a scenario written by Alain Sarde, the producer of the film, a genre in vogue at the beginning of the eighties (the detective film), a knockout cast. The fiction film’s trailer: a boxing match as amends, a debt of forty million, a couple that separates, a mafia gang, and an inspector who tries to solve the riddle of a murder.” (Frédéric Strauss) 

Screenplay by Alain Sarde, Philippe Setbon, Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville.

 

French spoken, Dutch subtitles