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...]
Out 1 is like a more
avant-garde Thomas Pynchon, or Honoré de Balzac on drugs. A true
piece of art, it’s unpredictable, a darkly epic tragedy one moment... [More...]
Monsieur Klein is an unusual variation on the theme of the police-gangster thriller
which was very much in vogue in France in the early 1970s. What marks this
film out as a cut above the rest is partly the film’s... [More...]
What goes around, comes around. At the time L’Argent des autres was made, in the
late 1970s, France was reeling from a series of financial and political
scandals that would have a lasting impact... [More...]
