Le gai savoir

How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions. In addition to the two characters' musings, the soundtrack includes narration, music, news clips, and noise. The result is a montage, a meditation, a reflection on ideas and how words and images mix - and how filmmaking is a path.

Le gai savoir is a 1969 drama movie directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Luc Godard, Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.1/10 from 1,271 votes and runs 1h 35m.