Subtitled Self-portrait in December, JLG/JLG is a complex and personal film by the director Jean-Luc Godard. With Francois Truffaut, Godard was one of the guiding forces in the late fifties and sixties of the French New Wave, a cinema movement that has influenced many film-makers. His features include A Bout de Souffle (1959), Alphaville (1965) and Weekend (1967). In recent years he has worked in Switzerland on analytical films that contemplate the film-making process.
Tonight's edition of TX features the director in his editing room. By freely juxtaposing passages of classical music, movie quotes and shots of Lake Geneva, Godard improvises a story which intertwines his own experiences and his thoughts on 20th-century film history. In French with English subtitles.