“To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.”

— Jean-Luc Godard

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Cited in: David Brancaleone, The Interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker into Contemporary Visual Art https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazine/issue-30-spring-2012-godard-is/the-interventions-of-jean-luc-godard-and-chris-marker/, 2012, closeupfilmcentre.com

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French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic 1930

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