Joy of Learning
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{{Infobox film
| name = Joy of Learning
| image = Joy of Learning FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption = The film's poster, bearing its French title.
| director = Jean-Luc Godard
| producer =
| screenplay = Jean-Luc Godard
| based_on = {{based on|Emile, or On Education|Jean-Jacques Rousseau}}
| narrator = Jean-Luc Godard
| starring = Juliet Berto
Jean-Pierre Léaud
| music =
| cinematography = Germaine Cohen
| editing =
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1969|06|28|df=yes}}
| runtime = 95 minutes
| country = France
| language = French
| budget =
}}
Joy of Learning ({{langx|fr|Le Gai savoir}}) is a 1969 film by Jean-Luc Godard.{{cite web|url=http://en.unifrance.org/movie/5551/joy-of-learning|title=Joy of Learning|publisher=unifrance.org|access-date=2014-02-28}} The shooting started before the events of May 68 and was finished shortly afterwards. Coproduced by the O.R.T.F., the film was upon completion rejected by French national television, then released in the cinema where it was subsequently banned by the French government. The film is an adaptation of Emile, or On Education, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's treatise on education,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/movies/le-gai-savoir-jean-luc-godard.html|title=A Godard Riff That Adapts Rousseau's Treatise on Education|first=J.|last=Hoberman|date=July 27, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times}} and its title is a reference to Nietzsche's The Gay Science.{{cite book |last=Brody |first=Richard |title=Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard |publisher=Metropolitan Books |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-8050-6886-3}} The film was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062997/awards |title=IMDB.com: Awards for Joy of Learning |access-date=2010-03-07 |work=imdb.com}}
Plot
Patricia and Émile meet at night in the middle of nowhere. While reading, listening to the radio and absorbing and discussing the information they are retrieving, they develop mutual beliefs not revealed before, opening a exchange not just on content but on how ideas are shared.
Cast
- Juliet Berto - Patricia Lumumba
- Jean-Pierre Léaud - Émile Rousseau
- Jean-Luc Godard - Narrator (voice)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0062997|title=Le Gai savoir}}
{{Jean-Luc Godard}}
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Category:1960s French-language films
Category:Films directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Category:French black-and-white films
Category:French avant-garde and experimental films
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