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France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children

1979–1980 · 1 season

A slow, essayistic drift through ordinary childhood and television itself, more a puzzle to sit with than a story to follow.

Created by
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Camille Virolleaud, Arnaud Martin, Betty Berr
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.

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Created by
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Camille Virolleaud, Arnaud Martin, Betty Berr
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • education
  • media
  • family
  • work
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity9
Emotional weight6

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Genres
documentary
Created by
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Written by
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Starring
Camille Virolleaud, Arnaud Martin, Betty Berr, Albert Dray, Evane Hanska, Jean-Luc Godard
Cinematography
Dominique Chapuis, William Lubtchansky
Length
1 seasons, 12 episodes, 26 min each
Network
Antenne 2
Country
France
Languages
French

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