Acropolis presents *See You Friday, Robinson* (Mitra Farahani, 2022). Los Angeles premiere!

Last month, Acropolis celebrated the life and legacy of Jean-Luc Godard with a double-bill of rarely seen films by and about the late French-Swiss master. The tribute continues in January with Mitra Farahani's elegiac portrait of Godard's final years and the long-distance correspondence he struck up over this time with the great, if lesser known, Iranian director and novelist Ebrahim Golestan (*Brick and Mirror*), now 100 years old and living in a castle in England.

In taking up his producer Mitra Farahani’s playful challenge—to see where this much-belated correspondence would lead them—Godard, ever the devilish imp, began sending Golestan a series of cryptic and gnomic fragments of text and image, always signing off “See You Friday, Robinson!” in punning reference to Daniel Defoe’s novel *Robinson Crusoe*. These messages in a bottle, cast out from the isolation of his home in Rolle, Switzerland, comprise some of Godard’s concluding and yet (as ever) inconclusive statements on language, cinema, politics, death, regret, and love. Golestan replied in turn with his own profoundly moving and subversively funny thoughts on these big existential questions, as well as on the mundanities and frustrations of old age.

Winner of the Special Jury prize in the Encounters section at the 2022 Berlinale, *See You Friday, Robinson* forms a loose trilogy with Farahani's previous portraits of artists in late career: Behjat Sadr in *Behjat Sadr: Time Suspended* (2006) and Bahman Mohassess in *Fifi Howls from Happiness* (2013). Farahani is also the co-producer of Godard’s *The Image Book* (2022), and his forthcoming film *Scénario*, and she has been instrumental in the restoration of films by Ebrahim Golestan and Forough Farrokhzad, including their masterful collaboration *The House Is Black* (1962).

This is an age 21+ event

Presented by Acropolis Cinema.

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SCREENING: Mitra Farahani's See You Friday, Robinson

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