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‘Scénarios’ Review: Cannes Premieres a Short Completed by Jean-Luc Godard the Day Before His Death, and Also a Film About the Making of It
In his final film, Godard looks at war, cinema, and his own imminent death.
Early on, we hear the words “A final warning” and are confronted with the grainy color photograph of a soldier in a helmet, his body submerged in water as he holds a rifle aloft. In the last two minutes of “Scénarios,” Godard is suddenly there on camera, sitting on his cot in an unbuttoned shirt, his old man’s pot belly exposed, as he looks down and reads an aphorism from Jean-Paul Sartre. Describing the pages of a scrapbook may not look like “filmmaking.” And, in fact, Godard is giving directions to his collaborators, notably Fabrice Aragno, the Swiss filmmaker and photographer who’s been his close associate since 2002.
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