Adieu Godard (stylized as adieu GODARD) is a 2021 Odia language independent drama film written and directed by Amartya Bhattacharyya. The film world premiered at the 43rd Moscow International Film Festival 2021. In India, the film got officially selected at festivals like IFFK (Kerala), KIFF (Kolkata), BIFFes (Bengaluru),PIFF (Pune) etc. Adieu Godard also won Best Film Award in the Indian Languages competition at the 27th Kolkata International Film Festival 2022 and the 'Third Best Indian Cinema Award' at the 13th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2022.
The film is produced under the banner of Odisha-based production company Swastik Arthouse, in association with Kolkata-based FilmStop Entertainment and the French company Les Films de la Haute-Vallée.
Plot In a rural Indian village, an elderly man who watches pornography with friends mistakenly gets a film by the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. Fascinated, he becomes obsessed and plans a village film festival showing Godard's work.
Cast
Choudhury Bikash Das as Ananda Sudharsri Madhusmita as Shilpa Dipanwit Dashmohapatra as Joe Swastik Choudhury as Jatin Choudhury Jayaprakash Das as Harideb Shankar Basu Mallick as Jaga Abhishek Giri as Pablo Dr. Banikanta Mishra as Dr.Tripathy Swetapadma Satpathy as Ananda's Wife Sumit Panda as Tutu
Release Adieu Godard''' was released in theaters of India on September 2, 2022. The film was released in India by Platoon distribution, while renowned star of Odia cinema, Anu Choudhury, presented it. The film ran in theaters for four weeks in Odisha, and apart from Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Rourkela, the film was also released in Kolkata, New Delhi and Bangalore with a special show at Jaipur and Mumbai. While the film was running in theaters in India, Jean-Luc Godard committed assisted suicide on September 13, 2022.
The film was greeted with a lot of enthusiasm from notable film personalities like Anurag Kashyup and Taran Adarsh. Apart from India, the film was also digitally released in the US and Canada through the US based distributor - Film Movement.
Critical reception The film was screened at various film festivals in India and abroad. Adieu Godard featured in the list of top 10 films to look out for at the Moscow Film Festival.
Devika Girish of The New York Times'' wrote that "This limp satire about an Indian villager’s encounter with the movies of Jean-Luc Godard rehashes regressive stereotypes and squanders a potent premise".
Film festival screenings YearFestivalPlaceAwards202143rd Moscow International Film FestivalMoscow, Russia26th Split Film FestivalSplit, CroatiaMosaic International South Asian Film FestivalOntario, CanadaSan José International Film AwardsSan José, Costa Rica202226th International Film Festival of KeralaTrivandrum, India27th Kolkata International Film FestivalKolkata, IndiaBest Film award- Indian Languages Competition24th UK Asian Film FestivalLondon, UKDare to Dream-Theme award 2022Cardiff International Film FestivalWales, UKBest Feature Film awardHawai‘i International Film FestivalHonolulu, USA39. Französische Filmtage Tübingen - StuttgartTübingen - Stuttgart, Germany10th Asian Film Festival of BarcelonaBarcelona, Spain20th Pune International Film FestivalPune, India13th Bengaluru International Film FestivalBengaluru, IndiaThird Best Indian Cinema award19th Indian Film Festival of StuttgartStuttgart, Germany3rd i San Francisco International South Asian Film FestivalSan Francisco, USABayamón International Film Festival Bayamón, Puerto RicoSipontum Arthouse International Film FestivalPuglia, ItalyBest Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay awards7th Jaffna International Cinema FestivalJaffna, Sri Lanka17th International Film Festival of ThrissurThrissur, IndiaRegional International Film Festival of KeralaKochi, India13th Panchajanyam International Film FestivalChittur, IndiaMysore Dasara Film FestivalMysore, India12th Yashwant International Film FestivalMumbai, IndiaTelangana Bengali Film FestivalHyderabad, India2023Kanazawa Film FestivalKanazawa, Japan20th BYOFFPuri, India15th Habitat Film FestivalNew Delhi, IndiaNitte International Film FestiavalMangalore, IndiaMeghalaya International Film FestivalMeghalaya, IndiaBengal International Film FestivalKolkata, India
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