During his final months on earth, Jean-Luc Godard was surrounded by an intellectual circle of friends, including Fabrice Aragno, Jean-Paul Battagia, Nicole Brenez, Mathilde Incerti, and Mitra Farahani.
Now we’re hearing that Farhani, via her very close friendship with Godard, was shooting a documentary throughout his last artistic period.
On June 30, 2023, the CNC announced funding for its latest quarter, and, among the projects selected, was Farahani's new Godard film, produced by Écran Noir Productions.
The synopsis indicates that Farahani followed the last months of JLG's life, before his assisted suicide in Switzerland on September 13, 2022, while he was working on his last film, titled “Scenario”.
Here is the complete synopsis:
When Jean-Luc Godard left the world on September 13, 2022, it was following a script written by him, voluntary death. For two years he had been working on a final film titled “Scénario”, produced by Écran Noir Productions in co-production with Arte. [The doc] traces the fragile schedulinh of these last few months of creation. As agony fills the horizon, the work resists to the final limits. The day before his voluntary death, Jean-Luc Godard addresses his last words in front of a camera, the final instructions for an unfinished work.
This sounds utterly fascinating. It turns out there’s much more to be told when it comes to Godard’s story.
JLG already premiered a posthumous short film presented at this past May’s Cannes Film Festival, titled "Funny of Wars," described as “the film that will never exist,” but this new project proves that he has more art coming. Maybe “Scénario” and the doc accompanying it could premiere at Cannes next year.