This postcard was created as part of the exhibition Tendo em Linha de Conto os Tempos Atuais by Jean-Luc Godard.

Keep a memory of Godard's exhibition or send personalized messages to fellow admirers of the artist.

The title of the exhibition, ‘Tenant conte des temps actuels’, [Keeping tale of current times] is taken from Film annonce du film ‘Drôles de Guerre’ (1er Tournage) [Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: ‘Phony Wars’ (2022)]. ‘It was a question of no longer trusting the billions of diktats of the alphabet and giving back their freedom to the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a real language by returning to the locations of past shoots, while keeping tale of current times.’ The superimposition between Tenant conte / Tenant compte (Telling [a tale] / Keeping tale) combines notions of fabrication and of accuracy; imagination and description; invention and attention – in short, the requirements and resources of cinema in the face of reality.

In 1993, Jean-Luc Godard met Manoel de Oliveira for a major interview for Libération, appearing on the paper's cover on 4-5 September. In it, Oliveira uttered a phrase that haunted Godard's films and cinephiles ever since: ‘That's what I like about cinema in general: a saturation of magnificent signs bathed in the light of their lack of explanation.’ In 1998, Manoel de Oliveira dedicated a poem to Jean-Luc Godard, Yellow Dog, which ends with these lines: ‘a peerless cinema / called Godard.’ These literary exchanges culminate in a dialogue between films: Film Socialisme (2010) by Jean-Luc Godard can be seen as a response to Um Filme Falado (2003) by Manoel de Oliveira.