Origins of the 21st Century
2009, French. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
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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- 0h 16m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- French
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- Released
- 29 June 2009
- Original title
- De l'origine du XXIe siècle
- Country
- France, Switzerland
- Written by
- Jean-Luc Godard
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Who directed Origins of the 21st Century?
Origins of the 21st Century (2009) was directed by Jean-Luc Godard and stars Pierre Guyotat, Ronald Chammah.