
“Scénario became Jean-Luc Godard’s last film project; that was a certainty. But he didn’t know whether he’d shoot it or not. The following summer, his body began to tire. He finally made an appointment with death for September 13. A little over a week before, once the date was set, he entered a state of obsessive urgency to finish a two-part film entitled DNA, Fundamentals and MRI, Odyssey. With the help of Jean-Paul Battaggia and Fabrice Aragno (Godard’s longtime assistants), he constructed this last film, to be called Scénarios (plural); gave very precise editing instructions; and, on the eve of his death, staged the final shot of himself to conclude the film.” (Mitra Farahani)