Jean-Luc Godard's Experimental 3D Film, 'Goodbye to Language,' Coming to Toronto (VIDEO)

French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's latest movie, the experimental 3D "Goodbye to Language," is coming to Toronto.



The movie opens on Friday, November 14 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. It will also show in its entirety at the venue on Monday, December 22 at 7 p.m. ET as part of Godard Forever Part Two, the second and final installment of TIFF Cinematheque's comprehensive Jean-Luc Godard retrospective (running until December 22). The film won the Jury Prize at Cannes this year (it shared honours with Xavier Dolan's "Mommy").



"Goodbye to Language" opened in early November in New York City and it topped the weekend's specialty box office with only two screens (the IFC Center and the Film Society of Lincoln Center). The film is getting rave reviews because of its innovative and playful use of 3D; Godard is known for reinventing cinema form (he was the first to use a jump cut in "Breathless") and now he's done it again with "Goodbye to Language."



So astonishing it demands to be seen more than once, Godard's latest feature employs 3D to amplify his medium's ability to hold more -- more beauty, mystery, and thought. A very simple story of a foundering relationship between a man and a woman set in an apartment, one of many instances of Godard's late cinema returning to the set-up of "Contempt," is rendered infinitely complex by a volley of images and citations, and a succession of eye-confounding 3D effects. (One boggling use of superimposition elicited rapturous applause at the Cannes Film Festival.)



Doting on the nature imagery that has characterized late Godard -- bucolic lakes, vernal bowers, and brazenly hued flowers (like psychedelic daisies and pulsing poppies) shoved into the forefront of the image all the better to intrude upon our space -- the director introduces a new star, "a dog that strays between town and country" named Roxy Miéville, who adorably proffers his tri-dimensional snout to us. The critical hit of Cannes, "Adieu au langage" is an innovative, mind-blowing journey.



"Adieu au langage" ("Goodbye to Language") opens at TIFF Bell Lightbox on November 14. It will also screen on Monday, December 22 at 7 p.m. as part of Godard Forever Part Two, the second and final installment of TIFF Cinematheque's comprehensive Jean-Luc Godard retrospective running from October 3 to December 22.

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