This was almost a good movie. There are a whole series of great scenes at the very beginning and it holds strong for about the first 40 minutes of its running time. Unfortunately, Godard decided to turn the second half of the film into irrelevant political drivel.
Parts of the film are almost impossible to endure (the scene with the guy playing piano as the camera circles... The scene where we listen to political rants while looking at blank faces.) some parts of it are just boring and unintelligible. By the time it reaches its conclusion, I was wanting it to end so badly that I barley noticed how cool the final scene was (it's a very amusing Bunuelian kind of ending).
This is a film that's only useful for studying some of the cinematic techniques he uses. You can learn a lot about technique from watching Godard's cinema because to a certain extent, all of his movies are essays on the art of film-making . You have to watch them with a certain detachment... All of them are highly experimental and because of that some of them are really really bad... This one has just barely enough entertainment value to be enjoyed on a conventional level for the first half, but the second half is nothing but a series of failed experiments and self serving political/philosophical nonsense.
Not one of his better works. If you're new to Godard, skip this one for now and watch something like Aphaville instead.
Parts of the film are almost impossible to endure (the scene with the guy playing piano as the camera circles... The scene where we listen to political rants while looking at blank faces.) some parts of it are just boring and unintelligible. By the time it reaches its conclusion, I was wanting it to end so badly that I barley noticed how cool the final scene was (it's a very amusing Bunuelian kind of ending).
This is a film that's only useful for studying some of the cinematic techniques he uses. You can learn a lot about technique from watching Godard's cinema because to a certain extent, all of his movies are essays on the art of film-making . You have to watch them with a certain detachment... All of them are highly experimental and because of that some of them are really really bad... This one has just barely enough entertainment value to be enjoyed on a conventional level for the first half, but the second half is nothing but a series of failed experiments and self serving political/philosophical nonsense.
Not one of his better works. If you're new to Godard, skip this one for now and watch something like Aphaville instead.