JLG/JLG: autoportrait de décembre

JLG/JLG: autoportrait de décemebre is, as its title suggests and a voiceover within the film confirms, not intended as an autobiography of its subject and maker, Jean-Luc Godard, but a self-portrait. The difference, as with so many of the linguistic distinctions that Godard makes, is subtle but important. Biographies and autobiographies are attempts to explain, to trace a progression of events