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HAIL MARY

by Jean-Luc Godard

synopsis

In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must school Joseph to accept Mary's pregnancy, while Mary comes to terms with God's plan through meditations that are sometimes angry and usually punctuated by elemental images of the sun, moon, clouds, flowers, and water. Godard intercuts a brief parallel story of Eva and her nameless lover; their adulterous affair, rife with philosophical discussions, leads nowhere.

original title: Je vous salue, Marie
country: Switzerland, France, United Kingdom
year: 1985
genre: fiction
directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
film run: 72'
release date: FR 23/01/1985, CH 25/01/1985, DE 18/02/1985, NL 18/04/1985, PT 09/10/1985, UK 11/10/1985, FI 28/02/1986, GR 15/06/2014
screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard
cast: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste
cinematography by: Jacques Firmann, Jean-Bernard Menoud
film editing: Anne-Marie Miéville

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