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.
Tag / Jean-Luc Godard
Image Book, The (2018)
As esoteric and fragmentary as one would expect from late career Godard—trying to say something about the world by being impenetrable.
First Name: Carmen (1983)
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.
Pierrot le fou (1965)
It’s an inventive, original piece, but also a pretentious mess that struggles to sustain in what could be one of Godard’s most overrated films in his prolific first decade as a non-conforming artist.
Band of Outsiders (1964)
Stylish and radical, this free-wheeling Godard film is entertaining and impossibly cool.
Vivre sa vie (1962)
Twelve uneven vignettes form Godard’s loosely-structured tale of a woman’s descent into prostitution, made with the creative spirit of some of his best works.
Breathless (1960)
Perhaps the most canonical of French New Wave movies other than Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows”.
