Two Bicycles

The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville

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by Jerry White

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville

Keywords

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville

Publishing date

2013

Publisher

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Collection

Film and Media Studies

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 214 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-55458-935-7

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Book Presentation:
Two Bicycles examines all of the films, videos, and television works that Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, two of the most important postwar filmmakers, did together.

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville worked across forms, across media, and across countries. This book, the first to be devoted specifically to the work they did together, examines the way they expanded the possibilities of cinema by using cutting-edge video equipment in a constant search for a new kind of filmmaking.

Two Bicycles moves slowly across France and Switzerland, with detours in Quebec, Mozambique, and Palestine. Their amazingly varied body of work includes a twelve-hour television series, some experimental videos, an acclaimed feature film with Isabelle Huppert, a cigarette commercial, and much else. Overall the book shows the degree to which this work departs radically from the legacy of the French New Wave, and in many ways shows signs of having been formed by the distinct culture of Switzerland, to which Godard and Mi ville returned in the 1970s to set up their "atelier," Sonimage.

Two Bicycles offers a chance to explore a body of work that is as unique and demanding as it is rich and revelatory. Godard and Miéville have worked together for four decades but have never seemed more relevant.

See the publisher website: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

See the complete filmography of Jean-Luc Godard on the website: IMDB ...