Le père Noël a les yeux bleus (Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes). 1966. Written and directed by Jean Eustache Le Gai savoir. 1969. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

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Le Gai Savoir. 1969. France. Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Courtesy Kino Lorber

Le père Noël a les yeux bleus (Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes). 1966. France. Written and directed by Jean Eustache. With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Gérard Zimmermann, Henri Martinez. DCP. In French; English subtitles. 48 min.

Le Gai savoir. 1969. France. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Screenplay by Godard, based on Emile, or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. With Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud. DCP. In French; English subtitles. 95 min.

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes, Jean Eustache’s first film with Jean-Pierre Léaud, is an autobiographical portrait of the director’s miserable adolescence of emotional, material, and sexual deprivation in a small town in Southern France. The film was shot on unused stock from Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculin Féminin (1966), and Godard’s production company, Anouschka Films, also covered post-production costs after Godard saw the final cut. A couple of years later, after receiving a commission by French television (who then refused to show it) for a modern adaptation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile, or On Education, Godard gathered Juliet Berto and Jean-Pierre Léaud in a dark, deserted television studio to film them discussing the nature of images and a new language for a renewed political cinema and social order, a prescient experiment on the dreams and failures of May 1968.

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