Two times fifty years of French cinema is a French-British-Swiss documentary film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, released in 1995. This film comes from a command of British television. As its title indicates, this documentary tries to relate or rather to evoke the first century of French cinema. In a first part, in a somewhat cold and obsolete palace, Godard sets himself on stage, during a conversation with a broken staff, with the president of an association (Michel Piccoli) charged with organizing the commemoration around the first century of the cinematographer. Or from the commercialization of the cinematographer. In a second part, the president of the association, encounters different characters of the palace and tries, in vain, to question them about the history of cinema. He notes, bitterly, that the history of cinema has been lost and that grooms and domestics have no cultural reference.. In a third and last part, the authors present various essential works of cinematography, through a very close exhibition, through the cinema, through the cinema's history, through the cinema's history, Some Aboriginal photographs blend harmoniously with intertitles featuring quotes from authors and filmmakers (Bresson, etc.)