n Friday 9 September 2022, Jean-Luc Godard had one last wish. He needed a quote from Jean-Paul Sartre to complete his film, Scénarios, but the book was missing from the shelf in his Swiss home. Time was pressing: he was up against a hard deadline. The film’s final scene was to be shot on Monday. On Tuesday, the director would
The inscrutable order; the impossible challenge; the high-stakes caper plotline with a French philosopher as its Holy Grail … if Godard’s last act feels positively Godardian in spirit, there’s a good reason: it was all part of a piece. The work was the man: intertwined, indivisible. Small wonder that his death became a creative enterprise in itself. “Running against the deadline is what Scénarios is all about,” says Aragno.
As for Sartre, he’s in there too, folded in amid the newsreels and old movies. The dash to the library had a happy ending after all. Lausanne lacked the book, but Paris came good. Aragno had a friend scan and email the right page, so that the film-maker could tinker with the text and read it for his final scene on Monday. Scénarios shows him sitting on the bed, bespectacled and bare-chested. He shoots a glance at the camera. Then we cut and he’s gone.on 13 September 2022.
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