Grandeur and Decadence
55th New York Film Festival
September 29 - October 15, 2017
On a French network TV commission, Godard created this Série noire anthology episode, a funny, melancholy video piece about a director (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and producer (Jean-Pierre Mocky) trying to make a movie out of James Hadley Chase’s 1964 novel The Soft Centre.
Godard took a French network television commission to create a TV movie for the Série noire TV anthology based on James Hadley Chase’s 1964 novel The Soft Centre, and turned in this funny, melancholy video piece about a director (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and producer (comic filmmaker Jean-Pierre Mocky) who are trying to make a movie out of the Chase novel—sort of—in the old style: on the run, with a low budget, and with an eye toward sublimity. A Capricci Films release.
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