The Frame

The end lost me a little, but up until then, it was enjoyable watching Godard synthesize objects, ideas, and styles from his earlier films. And virtuoso tracking shots make me happy.

In this French movie, a young guy who acts as the gangster muscle behind his father’s real estate business yearns to escape his life into that of a concert pianist (his late mother’s profession). Working with a Chinese woman recently arrived in Paris (who speaks no French), he practices for an audition that might change [...]

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 [...]

If Krzysztof Kieslowski didn’t win my award for MOST BEAUTIFUL FILMS EVER with the Three Colors trilogy, he’s definitely got it now that I’ve seen Veronique. Every single shot of this film is absolute perfection. In fact, every moment of the film is absolute perfection. The colors, the framing, the reflections, Irene Jacob’s face, everything. [...]

A man escapes from prison and becomes the successful head of a record manufacturing company; his cellmate escapes later and ends up working for the factory. Events come to a head when the successful man is threatened with exposure from various other former prisonmates, but the main focus is a satiric critique of the industrial [...]