re re Godard's In Praise of Love

[Byron]

Not much of a Godard fan, judging from this review I
would find this new film boring. I'm not interested in
characters reading blank books, quoting random quotes,
filming something backwards for no apparent reason.
Perhaps I'm missing what makes this compelling.

I didn't care for two Goddard films I did see. At
least I think they are Goddard films: Breathless, and
Alphaville? Don't actually remember much about the
latter at all. 

I did see one Goddard film I liked: the one he shot on
super eight about the young Maoist university
revolutionaries. What I liked about this was a
sequence of a conversation (were they actually
speaking? perhaps so, perhaps not) in a train
compartment, filmed with little movement of the camera
as the trained rolled along -- we looked past the two
characters to, and out, the window.

That was a rather neat effect, especially with the
colors.

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If Goddard thinks France is aesthetically ugly
today--did he ever much like France in the first
place? 

Anyone have any idea why he did this latest movie?




--- Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com> wrote:
> Jon Ford wrote:
> > 
> > Michael-- I'd be glad to check Godard's newish
> film out 
> > (even though the Paris I witnessed this summer was
> much 
> > more "aesthetically appealing" than what I
> remember from 
> > the 70s and 80s). I saw "Alphaville"  again last
> spring
> > and concluded that Godard was a lot more shallow
> and 
> > self-indulgent than I remembered him to be in the
> 60s, 
> > when I watched that film obsessively for about
> three 
> > weeks. But where do I find this "Praise of Love"
> video? 
> > Or did you see it at UT on the " big screen"??
> 
> Jon,
> 
> I rented it at Waterloo Video. Dian probably has it
> in 
> stock at Vulcan. It should be at your local video
> rental
> store in the recently released section.
> 
> Paris is beautiful, I am toying with going there
> this 
> month although this will truly piss off my roommate
> who
> is working and cant go. If I do go (and stay with my
> 
> high school chum Cynthia who lives there) we plan to
> 
> go out on the street and snigger openly at the frogs
> 
> from behind our hands cupped discretely over our
> mouths.
> Soyez gentils!
> 
> Mike
> 


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