Comment ça va is one of the most dense and abstracted of the several essayistic videos Jean-Luc Godard made in collaboration with his partner Anne-Marie Miéville during the latter half of the 1970s. As with much of Godard and Miéville’s work from around this time, this video concerns itself primarily with meta questions: questions about how to produce a video or a film, how to show certain things that they’re interested in showing, how to communicate their ideas. They explore these subjects through the loosely structured story of an editor at a Communist newspaper (Michel Marot), who collaborates with the radical Odette (played by Miéville herself, though her face never appears) in order to make an educational video about the production of a newspaper.

Comment.ca.va.1978.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-trand.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 17 min
Size: 	1.45 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 507 kb/s
BPP: 	0.236
Audio
#1:  	French 2.0ch AAC LC @ 165 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/3076E42899BFF2C/Comment.ca.va.1978.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-trand.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville – Comment ça va? AKA How Is It Going? (1976) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A film about politics and the media, in which two workers in a newspaper plant attempt to make a film.

Quote:
Comment ça va? is therefore less about “something” (whatever that may be) than about Godard’s inquiry into how film communicates meaning, or in fact lack of meaning. The ostensible main setup deals with a radical French newspaper and a supposed documentary being shot about how it has succeeded (this may strike some as particularly ironic, given the current state of affairs of print media, including newspapers—much like the daily in my hometown of Portland—regularly announcing they are decimating their staffs, reducing home delivery dates and moving to an online model). This particular vignette (for want of a better term) includes some sociopolitical (and socio-sexual) repartee between the paper’s editor and his secretary. There are some piquant observations (always a Godard hallmark) of both gender roles as well as the stifling impact of mass media on niche efforts.

7.05GB | 1h 17m | 1440×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/771F2E8BF67E480/How.Is.It.Going.(1976).1080p.BluRay.AAC2.0.x264-DON.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville – Comment ça va? AKA How Is It Going (1976) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A Jean-Luc Godard film about politics and the media, in which two workers in a newspaper plant attempt to make a film.

Quote:
Comment ça va? is therefore less about “something” (whatever that may be) than about Godard’s inquiry into how film communicates meaning, or in fact lack of meaning. The ostensible main setup deals with a radical French newspaper and a supposed documentary being shot about how it has succeeded (this may strike some as particularly ironic, given the current state of affairs of print media, including newspapers—much like the daily in my hometown of Portland—regularly announcing they are decimating their staffs, reducing home delivery dates and moving to an online model). This particular vignette (for want of a better term) includes some sociopolitical (and socio-sexual) repartee between the paper’s editor and his secretary. There are some piquant observations (always a Godard hallmark) of both gender roles as well as the stifling impact of mass media on niche efforts.

3.33GB | 1h 18m | 964×720 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/58C7FF7AF31BD60/Comment_Ca_Va.1978.720p.BluRay.x264.AC3-KESH.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English Hardcoded

The post Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville – Comment Ca Va? (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.