Le gai savoir (1969)

The film can be said to be adapted from the TV version of Emil, an educational masterpiece written by Rousseau in the 18th century. Rousseau expresses his ideas on education with a novel about the perfect education of a child called Emil. The film itself contains a series of conversations between the two characters (played by Jean-Pierre Leo and Juliet Berthod) in a dark television studio. Although on the surface, the film does not seem to have anything to do with Rousseau's Emil, in fact, it is very close to the spirit of Emil, except that it is in a modern way (Rousseau is a novel. Godal is a television program to address the issue of education. For Godal and the two characters in the film, the fundamental problem with education is to be able to provide some understanding of the sounds and images that impact us all the time in daily life. Such an understanding must be based on mastering the relationship between sound and video, because unless we have such a grasp, using the dialogue in the film, we will not be able to really understand or make television or movies. All we can do is repeat certain sounds and images over and over again-- because we are not worth the language.