Godard's Passion (1982) on Netflix
A Polish director, Jerzy, shoots a film of tableaux vivants based on classical paintings, with no story. His producer is impatient. Isabelle, a fired factory worker, tries to organize a strike.
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Plot summary
Jerzy, a Polish director, is shooting a film on a studio set: a series of tableaux vivants recreated from classical European paintings and set to classical music, and he has no story to tell. His producer, László, grows impatient while Jerzy delays and cancels shoots, blaming the lighting. Hanna, a German, runs the hotel where the crew stays, and her husband Michel owns the factory where Isabelle works. Isabelle, a young floor worker with a stutter, is fired and tries to rally her fellow workers into a strike for their sake. The crew recruits factory hands as extras for the tableaux, and Isabelle asks them why films never show people at work. Jerzy has shot test footage with Hanna and wants her in the film.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Godard's Passion (1982)
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- Sophie Loucachevsky, who played the production secretary in Passion, recalled that in the frost and snow the crew and cast waited outside in underclothes and nightdresses while Godard sat alone in a car, weeping and clutching a teddy bear.
- Cinematographer Raoul Coutard, working with Godard for the first time since 1967, won the Technical Grand Prize for cinematography at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival for Passion.
- Godard cast Isabelle Huppert as an unglamorous factory worker who is still a virgin, and made the part harder for her by requiring her to stutter.
