Note: this piece is edited from a version originally posted at The Film Stage on May 21, 2014. Used by permission of the author.
"A symphonic release. The violins swirl up the chords. The text tells us, 'When imagination has failed, one must take refuge in reality.' So must we. But what has come of reality? The world of nature, but what about the manufacturing of war? Cinema: the images were the murderer of ideas in the 20th century. A reclamation of reality is in order. A reclamation of freedom.
"Jean Arthur stares out at Cary Grant. She takes a chance on the unknown. So must we.
"Yes, this is Godard. This is Late Godard. Beyond Late Godard. Histoire(s) investigated the past. Socialisme: the present. And now: the future. It is Cinema 3.0 — 3D.0. We’ve passed the movement-image, the time-image, and into the image-image: the Frankenstein of the 21st century.
"The film is called Adieu au langage. Goodbye to Language. Why language? The goodbye is to cinematic language. The idea of cinema as a translator, as communication. Instead, the images are removed from their language. They are reality. 3D reality. A book; a table; a tree; a phone. They pop — the colors bleed into saturation. The new cinema. Representation disappears. The iPhone cinema. Arnheim and Bazin stood at polar opposites. Godard has found a way to wield them together. Total cinema as pure reality — the wind in the trees, but nothing to limit them as simply the staging of reality. Not a manifestation of reality. Reality as reality." ~ Peter Labuza
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