Godard's world

摘要

A new show at the Pompidou Centre, devoted to the work of Jean-Luc Godard, the bad boy of French New Wave cinema, is divided into two parts: a retrospective of Mr Godard's films plays in one hall while the director himself has been given carte blanche to create an exhibition in a second space. So far, so good. The connection is logical. Mr Godard's films have always been filled with paintings, quotations from books, and images from other films boldly referenced between invisible quotation marks. The exhibition was planned to consist of nine rooms, symbolic settings decorated with paintings, photographs, machines, books nailed to tables and video screens where films would play continuously. Each room would have sported a double title ("Murder [Montage]"), and the labyrinth they formed would have proposed a tour through the "Archaeology of Cinema".