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Joy of Learning (French: Le Gai savoir) is a 1969 film by Jean-Luc Godard. The shooting started before the events of May 68 and was finished shortly afterwards. Coproduced by the O.R.T.F., the film was upon completion rejected by French national television, then released in the cinema where it was subsequently banned by the French government.
How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution.
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- Drama
- Jean-Luc Godard
- 1969-07-12
May 6, 2008 · Alone in an abandoned TV studio, two militants have a discourse on language. Referring to spoken word as "the enemy", the two deconstruct the meanings of sounds and images, attempting to ...
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Overview. Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words.
Le Gai Savoir will never be a popular film, but it might well turn out to be an extremely important one. Profuse and dizzying with discourse, abstruse analysis, and word association, Le Gai...
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- Jean-Luc Godard
Jul 27, 2017 · “Le Gai Savoir,” Mr. Godard’s sequel to “La Chinoise,” his portrait of student radicals, opens on Friday at the Quad Cinema for a weeklong run in a new digital restoration.
Alone in an abandoned television studio, two militants have a discourse on language. Referring to spoken word as a weapon used by the establishment to confuse liberation movements, they deconstruct the meaning of sounds and images in an attempt to “return to zero” and experience the joy of learning.
