Jean-Luc Godard’s brilliantly perceptive and eloquent study of social decline in
the 1960s remains surprisingly fresh and relevant to today’s generation... [More...]
True fans of the director Jean-Luc Godard broadly divide into two
categories: those who say that his career ended with La Chinoise; and those who insist
(with an evil glint in their eyes) that this film marked the start... [More...]
A film lost in the cosmos and A film found on the scrap-heap are
the opening captions to what would be Jean-Luc Godard’s most virulent
assault on contemporary French society... [More...]
The film that marked Jean-Luc Godard’s definitive break with mainstream cinema in the
1960s and defined his future direction for the next decade and beyond was this daring
experimental work... [More...]
In Tout va bien, Godard continues a theme he has been developing in his earlier
films, most notably La Chinoise and Weekend. As in those films,
he gets his principal characters to rant extreme left-wing rhetoric in a... [More...]
Depending on your predisposition towards Jean-Luc Godard, or your stamina, this is either
an intriguing development of Godard’s art form, challenging the fundamentals of film making... [More...]
In this film, the eternally controversial film director Jean-Luc Godard offers his distinctive
treatment of the familiar Carmen story, best known as the famous Bizet opera... [More...]
In this film, Jean-Luc Godard takes a conventional detective thriller and manages to produce
something quite original – although the end result is far from accessible.
The film is loaded with Godard’s cinematographic... [More...]
As would be expected for a film that openly purports to present an up-dated version of
the Biblical virgin birth, Je vous salue, Marie created a storm of controversy
when it was released... [More...]
Those who might have expected Jean-Luc Godard’s King Lear to be in any way a retelling
of the famous Shakespeare play are in for a disappointment... [More...]
This film is a modern retelling of the famous Greek legend where the god Zeus assumes
human form to seduce a mortal woman by impersonating her husband... [More...]
Having trodden the path towards ever-increasing obscurity in the 1990s, the eternal maverick
of French cinema, Jean-Luc Godard made a surprising come-back with Éloge de
l’amour... [More...]
Notre Musique, Jean-Luc Godard’s latest cinematic offering is a sobering yet somewhat
opaque, almost surreal, meditation on human existence. Adopting the three-part structure
of Dante’s The Divine Comedy... [More...]
