Jorgensen Lecture with Richard Brody November 8 - Friday 3:00 p.m. For Ever Mozart (1996) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard November 8 - Friday - 6:30 p.m. A film director’s daughter is with a French theater troupe set to travel to Sarajevo to mount a play. Along the way they are captured and held in a POW camp, with their fate being grim. The aging film director (who is Jean-Luc Godard’s surrogate, providing narration) decides to make a political film about war titled Fatal Bolero. The film questions the place of art (and its inability to promote change) in times of war – in this case, Bosnia. His points are further punctuated in the closing of the film, when audience members of Fatal Bolero are challenged to make a final decision. In French language with English subtitles. (2K DCP. 84 min. Not Rated.) In Praise of Love (2001) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard November 8 - Friday - 9:30 p.m. In Praise of Love speculates that artists – like lovers and like heroes – rarely find balance between youth and old age, and asserts the importance of love, art, and memory in a world dominated by state power, commercialism, and amnesia. Structured in two parts, the film opens in Paris, where a young artist is developing a project on the nature of love. In the second part (set two years earlier) the artist journeys to Brittany to interview two Resistance veterans, only to find that their memories are being bought up for a Steven Spielberg blockbuster. In French language with English subtitles. (35mm. 97 min. Rated PG.) cinema.indiana.edu King Lear (1987) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard November 9 - Saturday - 6:30 p.m. Jean-Luc Godard’s King Lear is a beautifully photographed meditation on the nature of art and compromise, disguised as a modern-day retelling of the timeless Shakespearean drama. Power, virtue, betrayal…and comedy abound in this experimental and political adaptation. The ensemble cast includes Woody Allen, Leos Carax, Julie Delpy, JeanLuc Godard, Norman Mailer, Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald and Peter Sellers. (35mm. 90 min. Rated PG.) Brody Presents Godard 39