Le Parti des choses (lit. On the Side of Things) a.k.a. Bardot et Godard (lit. Bardot and Godard) or Le Parti des choses: Bardot et Godard[1] is a 1964 short documentary directed by Jacques Rozier on the making of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris. It is included on the Criterion Collection DVD of Le Mépris.[2]

Le Parti des Choses
Directed byJacques Rozier
StarringBrigitte Bardot
Jean-Luc Godard
Fritz Lang
Narrated byJean Lescot
David Tonelli
Release date
  • 1964 (1964)
Running time
9 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Paparazzi, by the same director and released the same year, also documents the Italian shooting of Godard's film.[3][4]

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In a retrospective review for Le Monde, Jacques Mandelbaum writes:

The pleasure of travel and holidays, the reoccurring theme of water and islands, the poignant sense of time, the inclination for popular genres and actors, the hybridisation of documentary and fiction, the supremely artistic improvisations and sublime inversions indelibly mark this style of cinema, which evokes like none other the sensation, at once both joyous and melancholic, of the grace of existence and the fragility of the instant. Paradoxically, nothing is more in tune with the world, or nothing is more visionary than such an insular cinema, which manages to grasp the essential by proceeding in a zigzag manner.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Le Parti des choses : Bardot et Godard (Jacques Rozier, 1963) - La Cinémathèque française". www.cinematheque.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-02-05.
  2. ^ "Le Mépris Blu-ray review, Part 2 | Cine Outsider". www.cineoutsider.com. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  3. ^ a b "Paparazzi | Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival". Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  4. ^ "Restaurer les films de Jacques Rozier : « Le Parti des choses : Bardot et Godard » (1963) - La Cinémathèque française". www.cinematheque.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-02-05.
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Le Parti des choses at the Cinémathèque française