France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Season 1
Created by: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Network: Antenne 2
Season aired: 1979-01-01
Overview
In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la France par deux enfants — Godard and Miéville take a detour through the everyday lives of two children in contemporary France.
Episodes · 12
Premier mouvement (Obscur/Chimie)
"The series premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in January 1979 and then ran for a week at the Action-République movie theater in Paris in April. ... Then, on May 3, they were shown at the Pompidou Center in Paris in a single six-hour session, followed by a public discussion on “seduction, utilization, manipulation of the child.” ... Television broadcast waited until 1980." (Richard Brody)
