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Dog Days
Posted by Richard Brody
Today, Jean-Luc Godard is in the news—he’ll be awarded an honorary Oscar at a special ceremony in Los Angeles (which he said he won’t be attending)—but what he really should be in the news for is his movies, and there’s a bit of news about them. At Cannes, in May, Godard announced that his next film would be called “Adieu au Langage.” Last Sunday, in an interview (by Matthias Lerf) in the Zurich newspaper Die SonntagsZeitung (The Sunday Paper), he described the project:
"It’s about a man and his wife who no longer speak the same language. The dog they take on walks then intervenes and speaks. How I’ll do it, I don’t yet know. The rest is simple."
Simple? I thought you wanted to hire a star.
"Only if he brings in some money. I’d shoot immediately with Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner, they’d be perfect. They were gods. Who could we take now?"
Godard laughed at the interviewer’s suggestion of Scarlett Johansson (“No, no, that’s business”) and said that the dog might be played by his own dog: “I don’t want him trained like a movie dog.” Also, he said that, though he hasn’t seen any of the recent films shot in 3-D, he is very interested in the technique:
"Maybe I’ll even shoot my next film in 3-D. I always like it when new techniques are introduced. Because it doesn’t have any rules yet. And one can do everything."
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