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Release Date: 01 October, 2002 Retail Price: $9.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (7 total) |
First Name - Carmen Reviews
An extraordinary film...Godard returns to his roots.
It's certainly true what the other reviewers of this DVD have been saying: it -isn't- widescreen like it says it is. This is dissapointing, but it still looks and sounds somewhat better than the previous video release of the film. And it is a very good movie anyhow. His 1979 picture, "Slow Motion" is generally considered Godard's return to his New Wave roots, but I don't really agree. I think that it's found in this film, in which Godard once again plays with the construction of narrative form like he did in the 60's. The style of this film and those films is similar, whereas much of his later work is extremely dense and cerebral. I'm not disparaging those pictures; I love many of them. But I find that most people tend to love his older stuff and avoid his later stuff...so I'm saying that this film would probably make fans of the older films quite happy. It makes remarkable use of Beethoven's music as performed by a string quartet that we see rehearsing on camera (see, this is the kind of stuff you expect from Godard, right?) as well as a great Tom Waits song, "Ruby's Arms".
Deconstructionism
Deconstructionism. The subject of the film is the film itself. The directors, the music and the plot of this film are disclosed in the exposition section. One of Godard's best film. Personally, this is my favorate film made by Godard.
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