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Woe is Me(HÉLAS POUR MOI )

  • Dir: Jean-Luc Godard

  • France/Switzerland, 1993, French, 84mins, DCP, Category III

  • Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Laurence Masliah, Bernard Verley

Though subtitled ‘A Proposition for the Cinema,’ at its heart, the film is a quest for spiritual meaning – a search for man's relationship to God and God's to man. Inspired by such lofty sources as Leopardi’s text about the anguish and pain of life’s journey, and the Greek myth of Alcmene and Amphitryon about the desire of a god to feel human desire, the film sees Depardieu as Simon, who is occupied by God to experience physical love with his wife. He meets various people, mere mortals who have no interest to know immortality. The film is confounding, challenging but also possesses a puckish, sober and ruminative quality.

 

Venice Film Festival: In Competition

    Screening:

    In-theatre Screening

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    • Financially Supported by

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.