It’s Not Me (2024)

Real Godardian (complimentary)

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Sans Titre (1997)

Possibly the genesis of the new film, a rare Cannes film made of short clips (magma, classic cinema, war, home movies, the in-progress Pola X) with voiceover, Leonard Cohen, Scott Walker. At least one clip of The Crowd appeared in both films.

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Strangulation Blues (1980)

Mostly nighttime scenes, invisible under the low-res video murk. Collette’s occasional guy Paul comes home and everything he says is a cine-reference, then after fearing he might have strangled her in his sleep (he didn’t) Paul drives off again. I think it was mainly voiceover, but as I mentioned, I couldn’t see much.

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My Last Minute (2006)

Gag video, where he types onto his computer that he’s quitting smoking, puts out the last cigarette then immediately shoots himself.

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and a couple 2002 music videos he did for Carla Bruni – first a single take of her singing and playing acoustic on a couch while a guy carrying a candle stalks the next apartment over. The next one seems like it will be a single take of her walking through a cobwebby tunnel, until she stops during the guitar solo to dance with an old man who was walking the other way. Bruni is the sister of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi – these songs are from her smash hit debut album released six years before she married the president of France.