May 1968 and Godard Since '68

Paris, May 1968

"Eight million workers -- half the labor force -- struck and many occupied their factories. Marching together, students and workers chanted 'De Gaulle, adieu.'" (Life)	"Upwards of 10,000 students fought back with Molotov cocktails and cobblestones ripped from the streets." (Life)
"Paris Uprising May 1968" video Source: YouTube (local copy).

Revolutionary Posters

• Picturebooks at nothingness.org

Godard in a 1972 interview

Tout va Bien (1972)

Source: user.chollian.net/~ml2000/still.htm

Letter to Jane (1972)

Analyzes a photograph by Joseph Kraft (U.S. journalist), published in L'Express, 31 July - 6 August 1972.

Original, uncropped photo:

Source: Tout Va Bien DVD.

Version used in L'Express--note that it has been horizontally flipped (check the reversed camera in her hands):

As published in L'Express, 31 July - 6 August 1972:

Frame grabs from the film:

The photograph, as it appears in the film:

Soft and Hard (1985)

Final shot (view more frame grabs):

Compare Soft and Hard's ending (above) to Contempt's beginning (below).

View more Contempt frame grabs.

Godard on The Dick Cavett Show (circa 1981)

Godard interviewed by the New York Times (2004)

Read the interview: New York Times site (registration required), local copy (password required).

Bibliography

1. Life, January 10, 1969.
2. James Monaco, The New Wave: Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976), 248.
3. Manohla Dargis, "Godard's Metaphysics of the Movies," New York Times, 21 November 2004, www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/movies/21darg.html.