Eloge De L�Amour Just seen Jean-Luc Godard�s l…
Eloge De L�Amour
Just seen Jean-Luc Godard�s latest movie with the above title. It is slow, almost storyless and intimate only unto itself (that is, the film is intimate but not in a human sense). The soundtrack is half the film. It must be seen and heard on the big screen. One glimpses what cinema might have been like had Hollywood not debased it. The person who wrote this review clearly is in thrall to what the film opposes and is unaware of it too. �Life is too short� he complains, yet if he wants to live, why is he sitting in a cinema?
A better review of the film says “Emotion is the last thing you expect” from it. “But in time–and this is a film that holds time in its hands like a wounded bird–an exquisite melancholy begins to seep through the dialectical static”. What more could you ask of a film?
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