The cover of a book on Jean Luc Godard by G.P. Ramachandran
Film critic G.P. Ramachandran s book covers the maestro’s politics and the revolutions he brought about
Watching the entire oeuvre of a filmmaker in one go, rather than watching them one at a time over several years, can give one deeper insights into the individual’s style and constant concerns. Especially so, when it is a filmmaker like Jean Luc Godard, whose first film
Breathless came out in 1960, and the latest
The Image Book in 2018.
When film critic G.P. Ramachandran began writing a book on Godard, the first thing he did was to sit down and watch the films one by one. But again, in the case of someone like Godard, who has constantly reinvented himself, making many a film unlike each other, jumping from one medium to another, shifting from one genre to next, it would be worthy to study those changes over the years.