In which Jean-Luc Godard tries to meld Pierrot le fou’s visual and narrative style with an overtly political story. Anna Karina is looking for her boyfriend, Richard P—, who has disappeared under suspicious circumstances, perhaps the victim of a political intrigue. Along the way, she’s thrust into a world like “a Disney film starring Humphrey [...]
Or, Jean-Luc Godard does sci-fi. Sort of. Lemmy Caution arrives in Alphaville, which has been taken over by a gigantic computer, which runs and regulates everything in the town. All the details were a little hard for me to grasp, even though I watched it twice (I never did get what exactly brought Lemmy to [...]
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 [...]
Jean-Luc! You’re not supposed to depress me. Of course, take a story about a young woman whose financial difficulties push her into becoming a prostitute, and I guess it’s just sort of naturally depressing. I didn’t think I liked the film much after watching it, what with the depressingness, but now it’s a couple of [...]
Angela (Anna Karina) wants to have a baby. Her boyfriend Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy) isn’t terribly excited by the idea and jokingly foists her off onto their friend Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo) – who is himself deeply in love with Angela. Though there’s real conflict in the relationships, the overarching tone is farcical, and I dare you [...]
