Le Parti des choses

{{Not to be confused with|Le Parti pris des choses}}{{Infobox film | name = Le Parti des Choses | image = | caption = | director = Jacques Rozier | producer = | writer = | narrator = Jean Lescot<br>David Tonelli | starring = Brigitte Bardot<br>Jean-Luc Godard<br>Fritz Lang | music = | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1964}} | runtime = 9 minutes | country = France | language = French | budget = }}

'''''Le Parti des choses''''' (lit. On the Side of Things) {{aka}} '''''Bardot et Godard''''' (lit. Bardot and Godard) or '''''Le Parti des choses: Bardot et Godard'''''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le Parti des choses : Bardot et Godard (Jacques Rozier, 1963) - La Cinémathèque française |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/71267.html |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=www.cinematheque.fr |language=fr}}</ref> is a 1964 short documentary directed by Jacques Rozier on the making of Jean-Luc Godard's film ''Le Mépris''. It is included on the Criterion Collection DVD of ''Le Mépris.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le Mépris Blu-ray review, Part 2 {{!}} Cine Outsider |url=http://www.cineoutsider.com/reviews/bluray/m/mepris_br02.html |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=www.cineoutsider.com}}</ref>

''Paparazzi'''','' by the same director and released the same year, also documents the Italian shooting of Godard's film.<ref name="rit">{{Cite web |title=Paparazzi {{!}} Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival |url=https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/paparazzile-parti-des-choses-bardot-et-godard/ |access-date=2023-07-01 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Restaurer les films de Jacques Rozier : « Le Parti des choses : Bardot et Godard » (1963) - La Cinémathèque française |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/article/1059.html |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=www.cinematheque.fr |language=fr}}</ref>

==Cast== *Brigitte Bardot *Jean-Luc Godard *Fritz Lang *Jack Palance *Michel Piccoli == Reception ==

In a retrospective review for ''Le Monde'', Jacques Mandelbaum writes: {{quote|The pleasure of travel and holidays, the reoccurring theme of water and islands, the poignant sense of time, the inclination for popular genres and actors, the hybridisation of documentary and fiction, the supremely artistic improvisations and sublime inversions indelibly mark this style of cinema, which evokes like none other the sensation, at once both joyous and melancholic, of the grace of existence and the fragility of the instant. Paradoxically, nothing is more in tune with the world, or nothing is more visionary than such an insular cinema, which manages to grasp the essential by proceeding in a zigzag manner.<ref name="rit" />}}

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==External links== {{imdb title|0057871}}

[https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/71267-le-parti-des-choses-jacques-rozier-1963/ ''Le Parti des choses''] at the Cinémathèque française

{{DEFAULTSORT:Parti Des Choses, Le}} Category:French short documentary films Category:1964 films Category:Brigitte Bardot Category:1964 French films Category:Short films directed by Jacques Rozier Category:Documentary films about Jean-Luc Godard