Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 15, Week 11

Guess there's not a lot of love for 80s-period Godard. How else to explain the surprisingly low number of correct responses for last week's quiz? Tant pis. The perfect film about the perfect mother, JLG's Je vous salue, Marie, aka Hail Mary is a not-uncontroversial take on the annunciation, immaculate conception, and birth of you-know-who. In Godard's version, Mary is a basketball-playing teenager who receives the annunciation by airplane, marries a taxi driver, works in a gas station, and a whole lot of other things that angered Christians worldwide. That's the lovely Myriem Roussel in the screenshot, who was actually 23 when she played the teenage virgin. This is a must-see, and the New Yorker DVD fortunately includes the companion film by Anne-Marie Mieville, The Book of Mary, which is equally as impressive as the feature. My desire to identify this film is rapidly becoming an obsession. Even my masters-of-film-knowledge buddies are stumped, though an anonymous comment suggests it might be Barbet Schroeder's More. I'll track down a copy later today to see if that is the source and let you know... Update: At around 1:20 this morning, friend and savior Glenn Kenny confirmed that it is indeed from More, allowing me to sleep peacefully. Hallelujah! Thanks, Glenn! This week -- I've definitely used this film before, but as I had the strangest dream about it, I couldn't resist. It's rare that the cinema of my subconscious programs retrospectives, but I dreamt a good chunk of this movie last night, right down to the soundtrack. Bizarre. Name this beautiful mess. Submit your answers to this address. Good luck!

Comments

[Campaspe]

ack, I missed last week's quiz and I knew it, I swear! I have such a vivid memory of seeing Hail Mary when it first came out. I didn't understand all of it but I still liked it so much. I should see it again and see if my intervening years of film viewing have rendered it less mysterious.

[Filmbrain]

Campaspe --

I expect you to get tomorrow's quiz in no time flat.