Origins of the 21st Century (2000)
6.4(26)16mMay 10, 2000
Jean-Luc Godard
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Writer
Rate
Diary
Overview
Commissioned by the heads of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival to make an opening-night short commemorating cinema as it enters its second full century, Godard instead offers up a 17-minute barrage of re-edited footage of wars and Nazi atrocities, interspersed with clips of Maurice Chevalier in "Gigi" and Godard's own "À bout de souffle."
