Origins of the 21st Century

Name: Origins of the 21st Century
Rating: 6.3

Not Rated Documentary War

Starring: Pierre Guyotat, Ronald Chammah

Writer: Jean-Luc Godard

Release Date:
May 10, 2000

Ratings:
6.3 / 10

Director:
Jean-Luc Godard

Companies:
Vega Film

Overview

Commissioned by the heads of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival to make an opening-night short commemorating cinema as it enters its second full century, Godard instead offers up a 17-minute barrage of re-edited footage of wars and Nazi atrocities, interspersed with clips of Maurice Chevalier in "Gigi" and Godard's own "À bout de souffle."

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