My Life as a Godard Movie | 
“Karina died in 2019. Remembered in the headlines as ‘Godard ‘s muse‘ ( in their first short together-directed by Agnes Varda-she played his silent doll-bride), though IRL they set up a joint production company, the trick was he seemed to produce her. In fact, her image would produce his movies, which came to be known as ‘Godard movies‘, the movies in Eastmancolor, movies in which the girl was the gun”.
“When asked what is the centre of the world, Paul says, love, Madeleine says, me”. 🌎
“In Godard, beauty and violence are linked - but he‘s set this up already. Ethics are the aesthetics of the future. I transcribe obediently, as Godard‘s protagonist, Bruno, dismisses all women over twenty-five. Godard first married a twenty-, then nineteen-year old, as though he could rewind to match each. What is it about youth he couldn‘t shake? When Bruno says it‘s unfair that women age it‘s unclear if he means for him or for them”.
“Godard, who is said to have advertised for a “lead actress and girlfriend “ (and found Anna Karina), isn‘t often thought of-in his early films at least-as a feminist film maker, but that moment of resistance he notices in his women, his study of their hesitation, of the kind of interest that holds its object at a distance, is something I do not often see recognized”. 🤔🥐🥐☕️
“ If, approaching the end of the world, we‘re forced to choose a single surviving monument to human art, it won‘t be how any particular work looks, but the act of looking”. @ShyBookOwl #FirstLineFridays
