The Joy of Learning ( Le gai savoir (Joyful Wisdom) ) ( Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (The Joy of Knowledge) )

The Joy of Learning (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le gai savoir (Joyful Wisdom)
Alternate Title: Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (The Joy of Knowledge)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
88 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1969 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Jean-Luc Godard

Written By:
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Actors:
Juliet Berto ..... Patricia Lumumba
Jean-Pierre Léaud ..... Emile Rousseau
Jean-Luc Godard ..... Narrator

Synopsis:

How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions. In addition to the two characters' musings, the soundtrack includes narration, music, news clips, and noise. The result is a montage, a meditation, a reflection on ideas and how words and images mix - and how filmmaking is a path.

I want to learn, to teach myself, to teach everyone that we must turn back against the enemy that weapon with which he attacks us: Language. While alone in an abandoned television studio, two militants, Emile Rousseau (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Patricia Lumumba (Juliet Berto), have a discourse on language. Referring to spoken word as 'the enemy' ? the weapon used by the establishment to confuse liberation movements ? the two deconstruct the meanings of sounds and images in an attempt to 'return to zero' and truly experience the joy of learning.
IN this time of increasingly personal cinema, the films of Jean-Luc Godard make those of most of his contemporaries look about as original and individual as monogrammed Volkswagens.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 15 December, 2012.

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