a scene off Masculin, féminin (1966) by Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022)…
«In 1971 I had a motorcycle accident, like Bob Dylan,. I consider him like an “equal,” a peer and someone with whom I considered myself to be in “correspondence”. I have a great deal of sympathy for him when I read critics who eviscerate him, who call him a “has-been.” Sometimes I read Rolling Stone to get news of him. I want to see whether he’s on the charts. I tried to get him to act in who-knows-what film, a project in the United States – and then all of a sudden he turned toward Christ and I said to myself, “That will happen to me too.” I forgot all about it, but when I made “Hail Mary,” I remembered: “Look, Dylan warned me.” The movie for which I wanted Dylan was “King Lear” – and told another journalist, “I’d have wanted Dylan, but the Americans are like kings, they’re untouchable, it’s as if I asked President Mitterrand to play a small role of a secretary because his face was right for the part, he might want to do it but he can’t.” Anyway, I did see Dylan’s film Renaldo and Clara – which he found sympathique» – Jean-Luc Godard on Bob Dylan, 1988
«I figured Godard had the accessibility to make what he made, he broke new ground. I never saw any film like “Breathless,” but once you saw it, you said: “Yeah, man, why didn’t I do that, I could have done that.” Okay, he did it, but he couldn’t have done it in America» – Bob Dylan on Jean-Luc Godard, 1985
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