France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children

S1 E1 · France/tour/détour/deux/enfants

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children — Season 1, Episode 1: Premier mouvement (Obscur/Chimie)

Documentary25 min1 season, 12 episodes

Episode synopsis

"The series premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in January 1979 and then ran for a week at the Action-République movie theater in Paris in April. ... Then, on May 3, they were shown at the Pompidou Center in Paris in a single six-hour session, followed by a public discussion on “seduction, utilization, manipulation of the child.” ... Television broadcast waited until 1980." (Richard Brody)

About France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children

In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la France par deux enfants — Godard and Miéville take a detour through the everyday lives of two children in contemporary France.

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