The Frame

I’m sorry, Jean-Luc, I didn’t quite get it this time. This Godard film was made in 1961, but not released in France for a couple of years because of its unflinching torture scenes and intimation that the French army was quite as unprincipled as the Algerian one during the Algerian War. I don’t know anything about the Algerian War (I tried to gather some info from Wikipedia about halfway through, but it wasn’t quite enough), and while I liked a lot of the moments in the film (especially those involving Anna Karina, because I have a girlcrush on her), the whole thing just kept losing me. I think the main character is a rather ambivalent French spy who gets captured by the Algerians and tortured, and then gets taken in by the French and tortured again, because they think he’s turned or something (and Karina is a spy too, but I forget for which side). Yeah, I just got really confused. And this is after a good three times trying to watch it this month. I’ll try it again later sometime, I promise, Jean-Luc.
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