Adieu Godard

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Adieu Godard
Directed by Amartya Bhattacharyya
Written byAmartya Bhattacharyya
Produced bySwastik Choudhury
StarringChoudhury Bikas Das
Dipanwit Dashmohapatra
Sudhasri Madhusmita
Swastik Choudhury
Ch Jayaprakash Das
Shankar Basu Mallick
Abhishek Giri
Swetapadma Satpathy
Sumit Panda
Sandip Bal
Sridhar Martha
Dr. Banikanta Mishra
CinematographyAmartya Bhattacharyya
Edited byAmartya Bhattacharyya
Music byKisaloy Roy
Production
company
Swastik Arthouse

Les Films de la Haute-Vallée

FilmStop Entertainment
Distributed byPlatoon Distribution
Release dates
  • April 2021 (2021-04)(Moscow Film Festival)
  • 2 September 2022 (2022-09-02)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryIndia
Language Odia

Adieu Godard (stylized as adieu GODARD) [1] 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. [2] In India, the film got officially selected at festivals like IFFK (Kerala), KIFF (Kolkata), Bengaluru (BIFFES), Pune (PIFF) 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.

Contents

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.

A still from 'Adieu GODARD' Adieu GODARD Still04.jpg
A still from 'Adieu GODARD'

Release

Adieu Godard 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. [3] 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. [4] [5]

The film was greeted with a lot of enthusiasm from notable film personalities like Anurag Kashyup [6] and Taran Adarsh. [7] Apart from India, the film was also digitally released in the US and Canada through the US based distributor - Film Movement. [8]

Cast

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". [9]

Film festival screenings

YearFestivalPlaceAwards
202143rd Moscow International Film FestivalMoscow, Russia
26th Split Film Festival [10] Split, Croatia
Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival [11] Ontario, Canada
San José International Film AwardsSan José, Costa Rica
202226th International Film Festival of KeralaTrivandrum, India
27th Kolkata International Film Festival [12] Kolkata, IndiaBest Film award- Indian Languages Competition [13]
24th UK Asian Film Festival [14] London, UKDare to Dream-Theme award 2022 [15]
Cardiff International Film FestivalWales, UKBest Feature Film award [16]
Hawai‘i International Film FestivalHonolulu, USA
39. Französische Filmtage Tübingen - Stuttgart [17] Tübingen - Stuttgart, Germany
10th Asian Film Festival of Barcelona [18] Barcelona, Spain
20th Pune International Film FestivalPune, India
13th Bengaluru International Film FestivalBengaluru, IndiaThird Best Indian Cinema award [19]
19th Indian Film Festival of StuttgartStuttgart, Germany
3rd i San Francisco International South Asian Film FestivalSan Francisco, USA
Bayamón International Film FestivalBayamón, Puerto Rico
Sipontum Arthouse International Film Festival [20] Puglia, ItalyBest Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay awards [20]
7th Jaffna International Cinema FestivalJaffna, Sri Lanka
17th International Film Festival of ThrissurThrissur, India
Regional International Film Festival of KeralaKochi, India
13th Panchajanyam International Film FestivalChittur, India
Mysore Dasara Film FestivalMysore, India
12th Yashwant International Film FestivalMumbai, India
Telangana Bengali Film FestivalHyderabad, India
2023Kanazawa Film FestivalKanazawa, Japan
20th BYOFFPuri, India
15th Habitat Film FestivalNew Delhi, India
Nitte International Film FestiavalMangalore, India
Meghalaya International Film FestivalMeghalaya, India
Bengal International Film FestivalKolkata, India

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