LE PETIT SOLDAT: Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 politically charged film noir in new 35mm print, opens 4/26 @ Nuart May 3, 2013

LE PETIT SOLDAT (The Little Soldier), writer/director Jean-Luc Godard's second feature film, was made in 1960 but immediately banned in France due to its sensitive political content and did not premiere until 1963. Michel Subor (Beau Travail) stars as Bruno Forestier, an army deserter caught in the middle of a covert war between the French government and the Algerian Liberation Front in Geneva. With both sides resorting to any means to achieve their clandestine ends, Bruno must decide what he is willing to do to escape with Veronica (Anna Karina, star of Band of Outsiders and A Woman Is A Woman, in her enchanting debut) and lead a free life. Arguably an espionage riff on the filmmaker's own debut feature, Breathless, this is the film where Godard penned his signature statement: “Cinema is truth 24 frames a second.” Also starring László Szabó. (Made in U.S.A.). Rialto Pictures presents the film in a new 35mm print featuring an all-new translation and subtitles by Lenny Borger.

"A HEADY, INVIGORATING MIX OF CIVICS AND CINEMA! Godard creates an on-edge atmosphere from the start, [making] audiences viscerally experience and contemplate things they might otherwise not have wanted to." – Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

"STILL FEELS DARING AND VITAL, both peculiarly timely and deeply Godardian, a meditation not just on politics and war – the Algerian conflict is the background – but also on morality and art." – Rachel Saltz, The New York Times

"EQUAL TO BREATHLESS IN ITS INVENTIVENESS AND EXUBERANCE... For Godard, political engagement was a deeply personal practice… [Le Petit Soldat] is that rare occurrence in cinema when action is infused with thought, and when the very nature of thought comes to life on screen." – Drew Hunt, Slant

The film’s running time is 88 minutes; it is not rated.
Website: http://www.rialtopictures.com/soldat.html
Trailer:

Landmark’s Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles (310) 281-8223
Show times and tickets will be available by Tuesday 3/19 at: https://tickets.landmarktheatres.com/Ticketing.aspx?TheatreID=209 and at theatre box office.
Tickets are $10.50 for general admission and $8.50 for seniors and children.

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