An intimate conversation between Godard and Miéville, subtitled “A Soft Conversation Between Two Friends on Hard Subjects”. “Setting aside the starting point of its title - the double entendre and crucial delineation of ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’ as terms normally deployed both in pornography and electronic technology - the film embarks on a poetic meditation on the intersection of their work as film-makers, jointly and separately, and their lives in the domestic sphere (…) Their conversation addresses two principal questions: the differences in their position and relation as film-makers and then the context in which their work is made and shown in the contemporary audio visual domain. They discuss each other's demeanour and disposition with remarkable candour and contrast their relative feelings and confidence in facing the world. Anne-Marie talks with self-effacing hesitation: ‘There are times when I feel that whatever originality there is in me... is very fragile. And since film-making for me is not as powerful and unique as it is for you...’” (Rod Stoneman)

French spoken

"With Anne-Marie Mieville we made a film about Darty, at the request of the company itself. They told us: ‘we make too much money. Everything is going too well; we’re losing our minds. We don’t know what’s going on.’ It must be said that the director was a real original. ‘Can you tell us where we are and who we are?’ We answered: ‘Of course... give us two million and we'll give you a video of an hour. We’ll give you a cultural audit.’ That's what we did." (JLG)

French spoken