Letter to Jane (1972)
- Original title
- Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
- Directed by
- Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jean-Luc Godard
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 52 min
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 13 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two filmmakers analyze a single photograph of Jane Fonda in Vietnam. They debate the political meaning behind the image and how it was framed.
analyticaldidacticcerebraldetachedfragmentedconfrontationalslow-pacedself-reflexive
What happens
Letter to Jane is a 1972 French postscript film to Tout Va Bien directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin and made under the auspices of the Dziga Vertov Group. Narrated in a back-and-forth style by both Godard and Gorin, the film serves as a 52-minute cinematic essay that deconstructs a single news photograph of Jane Fonda in Vietnam. This was Godard and Gorin's final collaboration. Susan Sontag described Letter to Jane as, "a model lesson on how to read any photograph, how to decipher the un-innocent nature of a photograph’s framing, angle, focus." However, the film was described by some critics, including Laura Mulvey, as misogynistic. Fonda herself later called the film "a big pile of bullshit." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Rak (1972)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.