“And you, Alex, what do you want to be when you grow up?”, his mother asked. “Me? Jean-Luc Godard, esclar!”, replied the boy who, not many years later, would rename himself Leos Carax. The anecdote is apocryphal, but it points to the intimate truth of an artist who, in his early days, channeled the fatal romanticism and formal daring of the early stage of the author of "Pierrot the madman, who recognized the affinity by inviting his disciple to participate as an actor in King Lear. Today the short film It's not me presents us with a Carax who, directly, makes it clear he is Godard, speaking to us with the trembling diction that identified the spectral soliloquies of the Franco-Swiss genius, and emulating the essayistic device that he perfected in the atlas that is the series History(ies) of Cinema. A cosplay gens banal, as it became increasingly evident as the project progressed that Godard's purpose was not to pay homage to the art to which he had dedicated his life, but to explain himself, as if his biography consisted of the images that had shaped him, and his natural destiny was to disappear within the audiovisual stream of consciousness that he manipulated at the editing table.

The challenge was a big one: to put together an exhibition about the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022), "one of the most relevant visual artists and thinkers about the image of the last hundred years". This is how Manuel Asín describes it, the curator of the exhibition Jean-Luc Godard. The fraternity of images, which can be visited at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge from March 28 to October 4. One of the challenges was to explain Godard in such a way that the exhibition "served as an introduction" to the director of films such as Breathless and Contempt, that it was not just a tour for specialists, that it avoided banal fetishism, and that it allowed for an understanding of the life and work of a mutant and often contradictory thinker. Another challenge has to do with Barcelona, a city where not long ago the CCCB successfully programmed, with public and critical acclaim, an exemplary exhibition about Agnès Varda, another pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague.

Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) will be the central figure in the programming at the Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona. The venue on La Rambla will dedicate an exhibition to him from March 28 to October 4, curated by Manuel Asín, coordinator of the film department at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and, between 2021 and 2025, artistic director of the Punto de Vista festival in Pamplona. Asín constructs the exhibition with previously unseen material, shooting notebooks, recordings, photographs, and paintings that form part of the director's personal archive.At the end of the getaway and ContemptMasterpieces of cinema and leading figures of the Nouvelle Vague. To gather and select the exhibition material, the curator has relied on the support of Godard's personal and professional circle, as well as several collectors.

At 65, the American Richard Linklater (Houston, 1960) is one of the world's most in-form filmmakers: a few months ago he premiered the magnificent Blue moon And this Friday a new marvel arrives in theaters, New WaveA sparkling film that recreates with rigor and a great sense of humor the historic filming ofAt the end of the getaway, of Jean-Luc Godard, a foundational masterpiece of the French New Wave. Linklater answered questions from ARA and other media outlets a few months ago in San Sebastián.