Reviews

This is a video essay that feels like a window into the precious collection of a videophile. Living legend, french director Jean-Luc Godard stamps here his mastery with his recurring topics and concerns. Very violent images dance with an adventurous collage of fine visual material, a result of a long time journey. I think the outcome is unbeatable and enjoyable if you are looking for new structures, like a jazz freestyle solo but with images and poetry instead of notes. It's a story about tragedy, revolution, the Arabic world, east vs west types of understandings and life itself.

If you feel like watching it do it, but be prepare to face an unorthodox editing, sound level surprises, non causal argument and beautiful images of a tragic reality, the reality of humans and its imaginary.

Do you want to watch a movie that's so bad it'll make you laugh? Search no more fam. By the first half of the movie I was mad. It was not clear who the main character was, nor its goal and therefore there was not a visible conflict. The treatment for legendary characters like Charles X is humiliating. Dialogues were so basic that you could watch the movie without sound and you'll understand the same thing. A teacher once told me: a good movie doesn't have anything prescindible. In this movie everything is prescindible, you could take out the dialogue as I said, or the whole sound and music, even any character and you would end up with the same result, a void without a story to tell. However by the second half, after all the anger, the sadness and frustration, the movie got worst and every scene became so meaningless that it turned out to be hilarious. Charles walks, Magneto is handcuffed with metal, Beast starts acting adolescent, and aliens start running into Sansa Stark to disintegrate. So yeah, I guess producers didn't care about the movie that was being made, it was like if a middle school kid had $200M to make a movie on his own.