A Letter to Freddy Buache
1983 · 11 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 301 VOTES · DIR. Jean-Luc Godard
Overview
This short film is Godard’s message to the people of Lausanne, specifically journalist and critic Freddy Buache, addressing his reasons why he will not make a film about their town’s 500th anniversary. Rather than cynical or defensive, Godard's bemused narration of the footage of Lausanne is imaginative and even playful, a rumination on cinema's possibilities.
Dialogue Timeline — 108 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:00 Letter to Freddy Buache
00:00:25 this short film on the city of Lausanne.
00:01:11 It hasn't yet reached the surface.
00:01:37 We must get quickly to the bottom of things.
00:01:58 We said it was an emergency.
00:02:27 I'd go up, then come down again
00:02:49 We'd need five years' worth of light to make a film like that.
00:03:16 Do you remember when Wittgenstein said
00:03:34 a green shot, a blue shot
00:03:57 but no straight lines.
00:04:17 but losing can be a pleasure.
00:04:37 Picasso managed it at the beginning.
00:05:10 Then there's what we'll call an upper shot.
00:05:44 They say we're dishonest and haven't filled the order.
00:06:21 and an upper Lausanne, near the sky and the mountains.
00:07:16 to see the movement of green and blue
00:07:53 We're trying to escape the spirit of geometry
00:08:30 It's very clear. I don't see how
00:08:56 film water and green, you'd know how to film people.
00:09:24 and try to examine it scientifically.
00:09:54 the beginnings of fiction
00:10:11 which can make the city beautiful.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed108
Dialogue density9.8 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line00:10:11
Production Record
DirectorJean-Luc Godard
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes301