''A Letter to Freddy Buache'' (french: Lettre à Freddy Buache) is a 1982 French
short documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
directed by
Jean-Luc Godard and addressed to the Swiss film critic
Freddy Buache
Freddy Buache (29 December 1924 – 28 May 2019) was a Swiss journalist, cinema critic and film historian. He was the director of the Swiss Film Archive (a foundation for the conservation and study of films and cinematography) from 1951 to 1996. ...
. It was screened in the
Un Certain Regard
(, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob.
The section presents 20 films w ...
section at the
1982 Cannes Film Festival
The 35th Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 26 May 1982. The Palme d'Or was jointly awarded to ''Missing'' by Costa Gavras and '' Yol'' by Şerif Gören and Yılmaz Güney.
The festival opened with the 1916 film '' Intolerance'', directed ...
.
See also
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Jean-Luc Godard filmography
References
External links
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1982 films
1982 short films
1980s short documentary films
1980s French-language films
French short documentary films
Films directed by Jean-Luc Godard
1980s French films
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