Event

Le Petit Soldat

Godard Does Himself

Jun 01 - Jun 05

(Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1963, DCP, 88 min)

Sunday, Jun 01 at 09:00PM
Monday, Jun 02 at 07:00PM
Wednesday, Jun 04 at 09:00PM
Thursday, Jun 05 at 09:00PM

A tale of star-crossed lovers disconnected by ideology (He is a Right Wing terrorist, She is a Left-Wing terrorist), Le Petit Soldat is Godard's first and best study of the strange bedfellows of love and politics.

Created on the heels of the international success of Breathless, Le Petit Soldat was completed in 1960, but was barred release by censors until 1963 (its subject of the Algerian War was strictly verboten in French cinema of the 1960s). Soldat does not rank very highly in the canon (amongst hardcore Godard-ians), but it holds up remarkably well, due its pungent political content and Godard's never-less-than-modern alienation techniques, deployed in full force here.

Difficult to find on DVD in a serviceable format, this is a rare chance to see this essential early work of the master on the big screen. With Godard muse Anna Karina in her first movie role.