Synopsis
““I’m a renaissance painter looking for commissions,” said Godard of this project, which began as a gleam in producer
Alain Sarde’s eye: Paris, pulp fiction,
Claude Brasseur,
Nathalie Baye,
Johnny Halliday, and an aging
Jean-Pierre Léaud (in various disguises). After Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville finished adapting Sarde’s story, the stuff about gangsters,
detectives, and bad debts became a backdrop for the relationship between Brasseur’s Emile and Baye’s Françoise. A fraught shoot, but it resulted in a lovely film with surprising bursts of passion.” Film at Lincoln Center
