Joy of Learning

1969 French film

28 June 1969 (1969-06-28)

Running time

95 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrench

Joy of Learning (French: Le Gai savoir) is a 1969 film by Jean-Luc Godard.^[1] The shooting started before the events of May 68 and was finished shortly afterwards. Coproduced by the O.R.T.F., the film was upon completion rejected by French national television, then released in the cinema where it was subsequently banned by the French government. The film is an adaptation of Emile, or On Education, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's treatise on education,^[2] and its title is a reference to Nietzsche's The Gay Science.^[3] The film was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival.^[4]

Plot

Patricia and Émile meet at night in the middle of nowhere. While reading, listening to the radio and absorbing and discussing the information they are retrieving, they develop mutual beliefs not revealed before, opening a exchange not just on content but on how ideas are shared.

Cast

Juliet Berto - Patricia Lumumba
Jean-Pierre Léaud - Émile Rousseau
Jean-Luc Godard - Narrator (voice)

References

^ "Joy of Learning". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
^ Hoberman, J. (July 27, 2017). "A Godard Riff That Adapts Rousseau's Treatise on Education". The New York Times.
^ Brody, Richard (2008). Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard. Metropolitan Books. ISBN 978-0-8050-6886-3.
^ "IMDB.com: Awards for Joy of Learning". imdb.com. Retrieved 2010-03-07.

External links

Le Gai savoir at IMDb

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Filmography

Feature

Breathless (1960)
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Vivre sa vie (1962)
Le petit soldat (1963)
The Carabineers (1963)
Contempt (1963)
Bande à part (1964)
A Married Woman (1964)
Alphaville (1965)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Masculin Féminin (1966)
Made in U.S.A. (1966)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
La Chinoise (1967)
Week-end (1967)
One Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil) (1968)
Joy of Learning (1969)
British Sounds (1969)
Tout Va Bien (1972)
Number Two (1975)
Every Man for Himself (1980)
Passion (1982)
First Name: Carmen (1983)
Hail Mary (1985)
Détective (1985)
King Lear (1987)
Keep Your Right Up (1987)
Nouvelle Vague (1990)
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
Hélas pour moi (1993)
Les Enfants jouent à la Russie (1993)
JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December (1995)
For Ever Mozart (1996)
In Praise of Love (2001)
Notre musique (2004)
Film Socialisme (2010)
Goodbye to Language (2014)
The Image Book (2018)

Short and
segment

Operation Concrete (1955)
Une femme coquette (1955)
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1957)
A Story of Water (1958)
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)
"Sloth" in The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)
"The New World" in Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1962)
"Le Grand escroc" in Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (1963)
"Montparnasse-Levallois" in Paris vu par (1964)
"Anticipation, ou: l'amour en l'an 2000" in The Oldest Profession (1965)
"Caméra-oeil" in Far from Vietnam (1967)
"L'Amore" in Amore e rabbia (1969)
Letter to Jane (1972)
Here and Elsewhere (1976)
How's it going
A Letter to Freddy Buache (1982)
Soft and Hard (1985)
Meetin' WA (1986)
"Armide" in Aria (1987)
"Le Dernier mot" in The French as Seen by... (1988)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1998)
"Dans le noir du temps" in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
Tribute to Eric Rohmer (2010)
"Les Trois Désastres" in 3X3D (2013)
"The Bridge of Sighs" in Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)
Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux (2014)
Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: "Phony Wars" (2023)

Related

Paparazzi (1963 documentary)
Le Parti des choses (1964 documentary)
Two in the Wave (2010 documentary)
One P.M. (1972 documentary)
Redoubtable (2017 biopic)
Groupe Dziga Vertov
Bibliography

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