Origins of the 21st Century (2000)

Release Date: 2000-05-10
Runtime: 0h 16min
Production Company: Vega Film
Production Country: France
Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Commissioned by the heads of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival to make an opening-night short commemorating cinema as it enters its second full century, Godard instead offers up a 17-minute barrage of re-edited footage of wars and Nazi atrocities, interspersed with clips of Maurice Chevalier in "Gigi" and Godard's own "À bout de souffle."