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Director:
Jean-Luc Godard
Writer:
William Shakespeare (play)
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Release Date:
3 April 2002 (France) more
Genre:
Sci-Fi | Drama more
Tagline:
Fear and Loathing. A Study. An Approach. A Clearing. No Thing more
Plot:
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Brilliant. more

Cast

  (Cast)

Woody Allen ... Mr. Alien (uncredited)
Freddy Buache ... Professor Quentin (uncredited)
Leos Carax ... Edgar (uncredited)

Julie Delpy ... Virginia (uncredited)

Jean-Luc Godard ... Professor Pluggy (uncredited)
Suzanne Lanza ... (uncredited)
Kate Mailer ... Herself (uncredited)
Norman Mailer ... The Great Writer (uncredited)
Burgess Meredith ... Don Learo (uncredited)
Michèle Pétin ... Journalist (uncredited)

Molly Ringwald ... Cordelia (uncredited)
Peter Sellars ... William Shaksper Junior the Fifth (uncredited)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
90 min
Country:
USA
Colour:
Colour
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
France:U | USA:PG
Company:
Cannon Films more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Cannon Group owners Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus signed Godard to a contact to make the film on a napkin at the Cannes Film Festival. more
Quotes:
The Great Writer: For words are one thing, and reality, sweet reality, is another thing, and between them is no thing. more
Movie Connections:
Edited into Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Brilliant., 30 August 2008
6/10
Author: jyrgen755 from Estonia

This film is absolutely brilliant. Weird characters and the fact that there's NO-THING really going on made this film interesting for me. Other people might find this film pointless and totally boring, but for me it's a treasure. I don't know anything about Shakespeare's 'King Lear' so I can't say if this film has anything to do with the actual play at all. This is exactly the kind of film that makes you think. After seeing this film you wonder what did the director want to tell me? Because clearly this film is made to communicate with the audience, it's an expression of the film maker's ideas, views and emotions. Or in other words... IT'S ART! The same goes to another Godard film 'Numero Deux'.

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