Operation Concrete

MOVIE #1,573 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 04.26.24 ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴊʟɢ? ʏᴇᴀʜ ʏᴏᴜ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴍᴇ! ᴀ ᴊᴇᴀɴ-ʟᴜᴄ ɢᴏᴅᴀʀᴅ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛᴏʀ ꜰᴏᴄᴜꜱ In a time before the New Wave, when aspiring French filmmakers could only hope to make shorts, due to restrictions on career advancement, Godard, working in Switzerland, funded, wrote, and directed a look at the construction of a dam there. This is a nice little technical/educational documentary that nevertheless still manages to squeeze in some existential thoughts around the general premise of “where do we get the materials to build massive things, like cities themselves.”

So today I embark on yet another DIRECTOR FOCUS: one of the O.G.s, JLG — Mr. Jean-Luc Godard himself. I’m excited to tackle this mammoth and perhaps sometimes difficult filmography and will be doing so, alongside my Hitchcock reviews, every other Friday for now until _____. Thanks for checking out this website.

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Operation Concrete (French: Opération béton) (1955) is a documentary made by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, preceding his work in narrative, fiction film. The film shows the construction of the massive concrete Grande Dixence Dam in Valais, Switzerland. It was released on July 2, 1955.