Who Is Anne-Marie Miéville? Miéville And Jean-Luc Godard Revolutionised French Cinema

Jean-Luc Godard, the French-Swiss director and the godfather of France’s New Wave cinema, who revolutionised cinema in the late 1950s, died at age 91. He improvised filming style and made his mark with a series of politicised films in the 1960s.  Jean-Luc Godard and his partner Anne-Marie Miéville worked together from 1970 onwards.

Today, Anne-Marie Miéville has been a filmmaker for 40 years – with him and independently. Godard met film-maker Anne-Marie Miéville in the 1970s. When Miéville met Godard, She was a photographer living in Paris and working at a pro-Palestinian bookshop. She collaborated with Godard as a photographer, scriptwriter, film editor, and co-director. She took up the role of artistic director on some of their project. Later became a partner with Godard after he called off his second marriage to Anne Wiazemsky.

Miéville and Godard cultivated exceptional work that embraced new technology while reflecting critically on it. Together, they set up a workshop on sounds and images and purchased televisions, monitors, cameras, and a photocopier to explore and experiment with it. In collobration they directed films like Ici et ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere, 1975), Numéro deux (1975), Comment ça va? (1976) and the two trailblazing television series, 6 x 2 Sur et sous la communication (1976) and France tour détour deux enfants (1979). Interestingly, Miéville co-wrote Numéro deux. Miéville worked as co-author, co-director, and co-editor on movies produced by Sonimage films between 1973 and 1979. 

Anne-Marie Miéville born on 11 November 1945, is a Swiss film director and filmmaker. Miéville wrote and directed short films and feature films, which explored the complexity of human relationships. Her films centered on concepts addressing sexual differences, partner relationships, family relations, and loneliness. These were accompanied by powerful music.

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Miéville was also part of Scénario du film Passion (1983), co-edited Hail Mary (1985), originally screened with Miéville’s The Book of Mary in cinemas. She also co-wrote Détective (1985). Besides, co-produced the video work Le dernier mot (1988) and was art director on Nouvelle vague (1990) and Notre musique (2004).

Miéville's first feature film My Dear Subject (1988), shows a family saga, depicting five generations—three generations of women. Agnès, a woman of forty, a writer with a certain public persona is the protagonist. The film depicts a tenuous relationship between generations her other familial relationships and portrays women's relationships with men in their lives. Miéville's writings focused on family, sexuality, domestic spectrum, violence, and oppression. These themes were enhanced using the art of making films. The dialogues, music, lights, and speed influenced her commercial feature films.