“Commissioned to make a film about the Swiss town of Lausanne on the occasion of the five-hundredth anniversary of the town's founding, Jean-Luc Godard responded in the form of a videotaped ‘letter’ to his longtime friend and associate Freddy Buache, the founder and director of the Cinémathèque Suisse. is Basically, it is a film about Godard's refusal to make the film, or about the failure to make the film, or even more pointedly, about what Godard predicted would be the perception of his failure”. (Ed Howard)