Underplayed Gems

How Is It Going? (1975)

How Is It Going? poster
Original title
Comment ça va ?
Directed by
Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre
documentary film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 18m
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

The film is a discussion about how photographs communicate ideas and politics. It builds on earlier work by the same director about the meaning of images.

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What happens

How's It Going (Original French title: Comment ça va) is a French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville in 1975, released at the Cannes Film Festival in 1976 and then in French cinemas in 1978. It is the third film made by the couple that year, marking their move from Paris to Grenoble. Stemming from a discussion Godard had with journalists from the newspaper Libération, it develops the aesthetic discourse on photographic images that the Franco-Swiss director had begun in Letter to Jane (Lettre à Jane; 1972). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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