Goodbye to Language 3D

Introduction by Indiewire chief film critic Eric Kohn on Wednesday, November 19 at 7:30pm.

Introduction by filmmaker Josh Safdie on Thursday, November 20 at 7:30pm.

The 43rd feature by Jean-Luc Godard (and the only film at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival to get a round of applause mid-screening), Goodbye to Language alights on doubt and despair with the greatest freedom and joy. At 83, Godard works as a truly independent filmmaker, unencumbered by all concerns beyond the immediate: to create a work that embodies his own state of being in relation to time, light, color, the problem of living and speaking with others, and, of course, cinema itself. The artist’s beloved dog Roxy is the de facto “star” of this film, which is as impossible to summarize as a poem by Wallace Stevens or a Messiaen quartet. Goodbye to Language was shot, and can only be truly seen and experienced, in 3D, which Godard has put to wondrous use. The temptation may be strong to see this film as a farewell, but this remarkable artist is already hard at work on a new project.

Official Selection, New York Film Festival
Jury Prize Winner, Cannes Film Festival

“A thrilling cinematic experience… offers up generous, easy pleasures with jolts of visual beauty, bursts of humor, swells of song.” —Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

“A masterpiece, a film attuned to a future that likely will not come to pass.” —Amy Taubin, Film Comment