Anne-Marie Miéville

Director

November 11, 1945 (80 years)

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Biography

Anne-Marie Miéville, born November 11, 1945 in Lausanne, is a filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter, actress and writer from Vaud. Anne-Marie Miéville works as a photographer and is the manager of a bookstore. In the 1960s, she also recorded two variety discs for Barclay, on songs by Jean-Jacques Debout. Then in 1972, she met Jean-Luc Godard in Paris, who became her companion until his death in 2022. Initially, from 1973 to 1994, she collaborated with this filmmaker as a photographer, scre…

Filmography

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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.

6.7

Here and Elsewhere

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a French family watching television at home. Originally shot by the Dziga Vertov Group as a film on Palestinian freedom fighters, Godard later reworked the material alongside Anne-Marie Miéville.

7.0

Lest We Forget

A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International.

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Sang titre

A special version of ‘Dans le noir du temps’ for viewers in Ramallah and the Gaza Strip.

7.1

After the Reconciliation

An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation about love and the meaning of life.

6.5

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema

At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder of his hotel stay, Piccoli tests Godard's hypothesis.

6.5

The Old Place

Essay on the influence of arts at the end of the 20th century produced by the Museum of Modern Art.

8.0

How Are The Kids?

A UNICEF-sponsored six-film anthology depicting childhood horrors around the world. "Hassane" - a malnourished child in Niger needs help from the doctors, but village traditions prohibit it. "Liouba" - a child escapes to the forest after a beating by his alcoholic mother, but the games he plays in the forest mirror his troubles at home. "Boy" - a child faces discrimination as the only white student at his school. "Carmelo" - in Bogota a child living on the streets fights to survive. "Oca" - when his twelve year old brother dies free-diving in the Philippines, seven year old Oca must take his place on the job. "L'enfance de l'art" - children living and playing in a war zone are touched by violence.

6.1

How's It Going?

During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist activist discuss how to present their information, especially how to caption two specific images: one of a protest in Portugal, the other of a strike in France. One of them decides to write to his son, a manual worker living outside of Paris with his girlfriend, telling the young man about his troubles.

5.8

Liberty and Homeland

The title of this twenty-minute video by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, “Freedom and Fatherland,” is the official slogan of the Canton de Vaud, in Switzerland, where the filmmakers live and grew up. To fulfill their commission from a Swiss cultural festival, they adapted a great Swiss novel, “Aimé Pache, Painter from the Vaud,” by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, from 1911 (about a local artist who goes to Paris for his education and then returns home) and extruded its autobiographical analogies to Godard’s own life and work. Using a choice set of clips from Godard’s films to coincide with events from the painter’s life, verbal references to modern times and to Godard’s own—Sartre, the late nineteen-sixties, the cinema—and images of the Swiss terrain, which plays a decisive role in the work of Pache, Godard, and Miéville (an important filmmaker in her own right), they produce the effect of mirrors within mirrors.

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Four Short Films

Jean-Luc Godard, and Anne-Marie Miéville Four Short Films

9.5

Living It Up

"Miéville captures a moment of disquieting intimacy amid the bustle of a parade." - BAM

5.5

L'enfance de l'art

Children living and playing in a war zone are touched by violence. Part of How Are the Kids? (1990), a UNICEF-sponsored six-film anthology depicting childhood horrors around the world.

7.1

The Book of Mary

Anne-Marie Miéville, frequent collaborator of Jean-Luc Godard, made this partner piece to Godard's own 'Je vous salue, Marie'. Marie, eleven years old, is experiencing difficult times. Her parents will separate. The perception of her universe is profoundly disturbed. This exacting portrait of a child immersed in her books, music and dancing casts a dispassionate yet touching eye on the girl's reaction to the new upheaval in her life.

6.0

Soft and Hard

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house.

7.5

We're All Still Here

Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue between Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work. The husband of one of them rehearses his part in a theatrical play, reading a 20th century philosophical text about totalitarianism.

5.7

Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)

Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art.

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France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children

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The Darty Report

A daring deconstruction of consumerist behavior featuring a robot and Miss Clio Darty, with a voiceover by Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, this philosophical "report," like so many of Godard's commissions, was rejected by its funders.

7.5

Lou Didn’t Say No

Moments and aspects of the life of a contemporary married couple undergoing a metamorphosis.