Description
A âserious-minded and meticulously detailed . . . account of the lifelong artistic journeyâ of one of the crucial influential filmmakers of our age (The New York Times)
When Jean-Luc Godard wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the character of cinema. Unlike any in advance films, Godardâs work shifts fluidly from fiction to documentary, from criticism to art. The person himself also projects shifting imagesâcultural hero, fierce loner, shrewd businessman. Hailed by filmmakers as aâif not theâkey influence on cinema, Godard has entered the brand new canon, a figure as mysterious as he’s indispensable.
In Everything Is Cinema, critic Richard Brody has amassed hundreds of interviews to demystify the elusive director and his work. Paying as much attention to Godardâs technical inventions as to the political forces of the postwar world, Brody traces an arc from the directorâs early essential writing, through his popular success with Breathless, to the grand vision of his later years. He vividly depicts Godardâs rich conservative circle of relatives, his fluid politics, and his tumultuous dealings with women and fellow New Wave filmmakers.
Everything Is Cinema confirms Godardâs greatness and shows decisively that his films have left their mark on screens all over.