LE PETIT SOLDAT / ZERO DARK THIRTY

ABOUT THE FILMS: 

LE PETIT SOLDAT, 1963, Jean-Luc Godard, 88 MINUTES, Rialto, France 

In French with English subtitles.

LE PETIT SOLDAT (The Little Soldier), writer/director Jean-Luc Godard’s second feature film, was made in 1960 but immediately banned in France due to its sensitive political content and did not premiere until 1963. Michel Subor stars as Bruno Forestier, an army deserter caught in the middle of a covert war between the French government and the Algerian Liberation Front in Geneva. With both sides resorting to any means to achieve their clandestine ends, Bruno must decide what he is willing to do to escape with Veronica and lead a free life. Arguably an espionage riff on the filmmaker’s own debut feature, Breathless, this is the film where Godard penned his signature statement: “Cinema is truth 24 frames a second.”

FORMAT: 35mm

ZERO DARK THIRTY, 2012, Kathryn Bigelow, 157 MINUTES, Sony, USA 

For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. ZERO DARK THIRTY reunites the Oscar-winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal  for the story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man.

FORMAT: DCP