Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. “I didn’t want to write the script,” he states, “I wanted to see it.” Positioning himself in a video editing suite in front of a white film screen that evokes for him the “famous blank page of Mallarmé,” Godard uses video as a sketchbook with which to reconceive the film. The result is a philosophical, often humorous rumination on the desire and labor that inform the conceptual and image making process of the cinema.
Jean-Luc Godard
as Narrator / Self
Anne-Marie Miéville
as Self
Pierre Binggeli
as Self
Jean-Bernard Menoud
as Self
Isabelle Huppert
as Self
Michel Piccoli
as Self
Hanna Schygulla
as Self
Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
as Self
