Letter to Jane: An Investigation of a Still

Update:The color in the print we received of Letter to Jane is faded to red and so we will screen a digital copy.

This extraordinary little movie emerged from the then recently formed French Dziga Vertov film collective, led by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin . . . united in a dream of a new revolutionary cinema . . . The entire premise of Letter to Jane is a deconstruction of a notorious news photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi and surrounded by Vietnamese communists. The best parts of the film function as a withering critique of the iconography of Hollywood and the (fashionably unfashionable) Hollywood star system. 

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