BOOTLEG FILES 578: “Une Femme Coquette” (1955 short directed by Jean-Luc Godard).
LAST SEEN: A possible unauthorized video dupe is on YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: The filmmaker never made it available for home entertainment release.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Not likely at this time.
Over the past week, cinephiles on the Internet were in a lather over the news that a long-unseen Jean-Luc Godard film mysteriously turned up on YouTube. Since I am not a Godard fan, my initial reaction was one of mild indifference. But because the film’s arrival online came through what appears to be a bootleg copy, and since it only runs a mere nine minutes, I felt duty bound to give it a viewing.
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