ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

Experimental film by Jean-Luc Godard.  2014 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner.  A story of a dog, wrapped in an essay film about philosophical questions, and questions about history, also a story about one or more couples, with nudity, filmed in multiple video formats, with beautiful shots of several places in Europe - specially one of a ship on a body of water.  A challenging and interesting movie.  Filmed by a crew of 3 (including the director). Goodbye To Language from kinolorber on Vimeo .

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From TIFF YouTube page: "Featuring films by Philipp Fleischmann, Charlotte Prodger, Mike Gibisser, and Pedro Neves Marques.Structures of display and containment, both physical and figurative, form the core of this programme, whose works — by turns fluid, cryptic, coded, and diaristic — refute many binaries: interior/exterior, personal/public, lion/lioness." Read the rest here -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_MRkZymXK0

 * From TIFF YouTube page - "Bookended by stunning astral compositions, this programme explores the elemental as informed by myths, legends, dreams, and cosmic forces. With films by Kevin Jerome Everson, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sky Hopinka, Britany Gavelly & Ken Linehan, Jodie Mack, Lina Rodriguez, and Malena Szlam."