“Jean-Luc Godard’s initial idea for the film ‘Goodbye to Language,’ he said, was a simple one: ‘It’s about a man and his wife who no longer speak the same language. The dog they take on walks then intervenes and speaks.’ That does happen, sort of, eventually, without the talking.” Read more here in The New Yorker.
The film was produced in 3-D, but not in the usual way. “Normally [two cameras are] interlocked to produce a smooth image, a 3-D illusion,’ [film historian David] Bordwell explains. ‘But what Godard does in a couple of points in the film is pan one of the two cameras he uses but keep the other one fixed on the object. So in fact you get a splitting of the image — two flat images, superimposed on each other in depth. When [the] first instance of that showed up in the film at Cannes, audiences spontaneously applauded. They had never seen anything like it.'” More here from NPR.
