Liberty and Homeland
2002 · 21 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 229 VOTES · DIR. Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Overview
The title of this twenty-minute video by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, “Freedom and Fatherland,” is the official slogan of the Canton de Vaud, in Switzerland, where the filmmakers live and grew up. To fulfill their commission from a Swiss cultural festival, they adapted a great Swiss novel, “Aimé Pache, Painter from the Vaud,” by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, from 1911 (about a local artist who goes to Paris for his education and then returns home) and extruded its autobiographical analogies to Godard’s own life and work. Using a choice set of clips from Godard’s films to coincide with events from the painter’s life, verbal references to modern times and to Godard’s own—Sartre, the late nineteen-sixties, the cinema—and images of the Swiss terrain, which plays a decisive role in the work of Pache, Godard, and Miéville (an important filmmaker in her own right), they produce the effect of mirrors within mirrors.
Dialogue Timeline — 270 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:15 When did he get the commission?
00:00:56 You'll be surprised at how differently the expression
00:01:37 Trying to picture something.
00:02:22 It could live on its own, with no need for the rest of the world.
00:04:19 You mustn't forget that the French freed the country
00:05:25 Why did the Expo people commission that big painting from him?
00:06:22 In the villages, they still showed its last reels.
00:07:22 And the two of them lived humbly on the future Paris-Lausanne line.
00:08:55 Go ahead. - I want to say...
00:09:38 What's the best way?
00:10:25 on the other side of the lake.
00:11:00 The father here, the mother over there
00:11:48 One night he dreams his mother returns him to his father.
00:12:26 because it can always disappear."
00:14:02 "Poor and lost, like flowers between the rails
00:14:39 He mixes timidly with the younger generation.
00:15:22 You have to endure to be able to return.
00:16:34 At that time.
00:17:49 "Claire" is written on her face and in the shape of her arms.
00:18:32 she takes the boat and disappears.
00:19:35 First he puts the children in, then the road, in one sweep.
00:21:25 and art is the exception.
00:21:59 So the rule for Cultural Europe