Via Cinemasparagus –

GODARD: The production went very smoothly. But afterward, you stumble into distribution, circulation, and it’s a whole other story. I wanted to distribute my film across the same amount of time that the production took — meaning across four years…

COHN-BENDIT: You put four years into this?

GODARD: Yes; I told them: it’s going to take four years to make it — actually, no, I didn’t tell them that. And I wanted to distribute it like this: you take a boy and a girl, or two or three small groups, you give them video copies, you drop them out of an airplane by parachute, they have a map of France, they don’t know where they’re going to land, and you let them sort things out, go into cafés, show it a few hundred times… Then you look at what’s happening — they get the lay of the land, they find out what people think about the film. In the second year, you show it in a few screening rooms at small festivals. Afterwards, you no longer need to release it — you’ll have recouped everything, especially since the producers have put in so little — 300,000 euros — but this will have taken four years. In lieu of that, it’s being distributed into a world for which it wasn’t produced…

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