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Category / Godard, Jean-Luc

March 22, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Made in U.S.A (1966)

  • Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1966, France, Jean-Luc Godard
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This is Godard having fun with colours and language as its crime-noir trappings somewhat mask the auteur’s increasing fixation on Marxist politics, though the film isn’t always coherent or compelling.  

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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February 27, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Woman Is a Woman, A (1961)

  • Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1961, France, Jean-Luc Godard
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This early Godard sees Anna Karina at her most bewitching (those soul-staring eyes that break the fourth wall!) as the auteur reinvents the ‘rom-com’ with wilful abandon and artistry.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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January 25, 2021October 29, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Le petit soldat (1963)

  • Criterion Collection, Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1963, France, Jean-Luc Godard
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Banned for a short while in France, Godard’s second feature boldly and stylistically depicts the moral complexities of the Algerian war, throwing audiences at the time an early political curveball.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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December 26, 2020August 18, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Weekend (1967)

  • Criterion Collection, Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1967, France, Jean-Luc Godard
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Godard’s anarchic work of gleeful nihilism is not just a challenging treatise on the corruption and destruction of bourgeois values, but one of his most essential films about the end of civility and civilisation.  

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Contempt (1963)

  • Criterion Collection, Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1963, France, Jean-Luc Godard
  • 3 Comments

Emotions run deep in Godard’s masterwork as it charts the deterioration of a couple’s marriage whilst set against the chronic uncertainties of a movie production.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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March 16, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Detective (1985)

  • Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1985, France, Jean-Luc Godard
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Godard’s attempt at mashing multiple genres together in a mystery-type film doesn’t really go anywhere, and in fact, the characters are ironically searching for some kind of direction.

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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February 18, 2020October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Oh, Woe Is Me (1993)

  • Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1993, France, Jean-Luc Godard
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An experimental audiovisual essay by an increasingly iconoclastic ‘90s Godard that abstractly ruminates about religion, philosophy, love and politics in the only way he can.

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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February 19, 2019October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Godard’s Passion (1982)

  • Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1982, France, Jean-Luc Godard
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Could be one of Godard’s most beautifully-shot films, but its experimental use of unsync dialogue combined with a fragmentary and obtuse narrative makes this challenging to appreciate.

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.
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January 30, 2019December 26, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Image Book, The (2018)

  • Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 2018, Documentary, France, Jean-Luc Godard
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As esoteric and fragmentary as one would expect from late career Godard—trying to say something about the world by being impenetrable.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.
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January 18, 2019November 30, 2020 by Eternality Tan

First Name: Carmen (1983)

  • Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1983, France, Jean-Luc Godard
  • 1 Comment

Godard’s Venice Golden Lion winner doesn’t quite work narratively, but its fragmentary melding of music, sound design and images is an interesting experiment.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
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