Thursday, October 10 2019 | 8PM Passion France 1982 d. Jean-Luc Godard with Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, László Szabó, Myriem Roussel and Sophie Loucachevsk. Colour. In French with English subtitles. 88 m
“Passion points the way to a kind of intensely personal yet commercially oriented film making that would stand in relation to mainstream movies the way quarterlies stand to mass- circulation weeklies and monthlies….[it] is the Godard report on the state of the world as it appeared to him at the time the film was being made. On hand to help him realize his thoughts on film, and to help him get the kind of big budget that will ease the film’s way into more or less conventional theaters, are no less than Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Huppert, Michel Piccoli, and, perhaps best of all, Raoul Coutard, the great cameraman identified with almost all of the classic Godard films of the 1960’s, including La Chinoise and Weekend.” Vincent Canby
See Also: La Truite aka The Trout (Kosey, 1982), Une Chambre en ville aka A Room In Town (Demy, 1982), Invitation au voyage (Del Monte, 1982)