SFFS Presents: Film Socialisme. A New Film by Legendary Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard

The San Francisco Film Society’s new theatrical home, San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema will open Friday, September 2 with Film Socialisme (Switzerland/France 2010), legendary director Jean-Luc Godard’s evocative, magisterial essay on the decline of European civilization.
Dates: September 2-8, 2011
Showtimes: 2, 4:30, 7 AND 9:20
Cost: $9 SFFS Members $11 General Public
Venue: San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post St.
San Francisco, CA 94115

Website: http://www.sffs.org/content.aspx?catid=8,898&pageid=2284&TitleId=fsc-filmsocialisme

Tel.: (415) 561-5000



Ever the provocateur, master filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard required that his latest film be presented with subtitles that only suggest the welter of language(s) spoken. It’s an appropriate gambit as the film addresses the decline of Western civilization—and its Babel-like confluence of languages—within the contexts of a polyglot cruise liner traversing the Mediterranean and, more intimately, an intellectual, loving family that runs a service station in provincial France. Weaving together philosophical texts, documentary footage and scenes from classic films, this is a dissonant, dense and challenging work, but also an impassioned and undeniably brilliant investigation into the costs of liberty.