Goodbye to Language
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Mar. 22 @ 4:30 (Royal Theatre in Trail)

Jean-Luc Godard was one of the New Wave directors, who prior to filmmaking, were film critics for the periodical, Cahiers Du Cinema. Like his New Wave peers, he criticized mainstream French cinema’s “Tradition of Quality”, which “emphasized craft over innovation, privileged established directors over new directors, and preferred the great works of the past to experimentation.” To challenge this tradition, he and like-minded critics started to make their own films. Many of Godard’s films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. He is often considered the most radical French filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s.

His techniques break the traditional “rules” of cinema to reveal the auteur behind the works.  Breathless, Godard’s first film, was the first to use the jump cut in contemporary cinema.  His influence has touched many of the great filmmakers, including Bertolucci, Scorsese and Soderbergh to name a few.

Now, at 83, he makes a 3D movie.  Of any film you are likely to see in 3D, it is Godard’s that will truly do it justice.

Join the Civic, in partnership with The Trail Arts Council, for a cinema field trip to see the Cannes’ Jury Prize awarded, Adieu Au Langage (Goodbye to Language), in all its 3D glory at The Royal Theatre in Trail.

If we get enough interested we will be organizing transportation to take The Civic group over to Trail for the screening.  contact jason@civictheatre.ca to be added to the list.