2000
6.3 (24 votes)
0h 16m
Genres
Documentary
Production Companies
Vega Film
Origins of the 21st Century (De l'origine du XXIe siècle)
Overview
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."
