''Adieu Godard'' (stylized as ''adieu GODARD'') is a 2021

Odia language Odia (, ISO: , ; formerly rendered Oriya ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the official language in Odisha (formerly rendered Orissa), where native speakers make up 82% of the population, and it is also ...

independent

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

written and directed by

Amartya Bhattacharyya Amartya Bhattacharyya is a filmmaker, writer and artist from eastern India. He was awarded the Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal) for the Best Cinematography in non-feature film at the 63rd National Film Awards by the president of India for his fantas ...

. The film world premiered at the 43rd

Moscow International Film Festival The Moscow International Film Festival (russian: Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. ''Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál''; abbreviated as MIFF) is the film festival first h ...

2021. In India, the film got officially selected at festivals like

IFFK The International Film Festival of Kerala (abbreviated as IFFK) is a film festival held annually in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala, India. This film festival started in 1996 and is hosted by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy ...

(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 The Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) is an annual film festival held in Kolkata, India. Founded in 1995, it is the third oldest international film festival in India. The festival is organized by the West Bengal Film Centre under the W ...

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.'' Adieu GODARD Still04

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. 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 Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as Fran� ...

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.

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 * Sandip Bal as Angry Villager * Sridhar Martha as DVD Seller

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 ''

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'' 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

References

{{reflist Indian independent films 2020s Odia-language films 2020s Indian films