anybody caught the rerelease of this on DVD?
godard movie from 1972 about the let down of being a leftist post 1968 in france. thought i'd post about it cos it kind of relates to some of the discussions about M.I.A. and nathan barley, about the feeling that today activism has retreated into some comfortable rutt, where people just spit out the scripts of dissent but most people arnt 'feeling it' and its no longer able to affect anything. people are just going thru the motions and revolution is only a pose within the market.
it seemed like people thought that was a new feeling, but someone suggested it could be the same for every generation which this movie might support.
other than that this movie treads the line between being trying to be accesible and being deliberatly difficult. thats something i like in a film
it has all classic godard perversity, base humour to contrast with the analytical monologues, political ambivalence, intrusive musical interludes, confusing self reference, simultaneous translation...
its really formally beautiful and inovative, alternately naive and brutal.
it got really badly slated at the time, but i found it a really interesting, very attractive, discussion of the 'problem' of being a middle class leftist.
so, yeah, i'm just making a little recommendation... and i'd like to hear what anyone else thought.
godard movie from 1972 about the let down of being a leftist post 1968 in france. thought i'd post about it cos it kind of relates to some of the discussions about M.I.A. and nathan barley, about the feeling that today activism has retreated into some comfortable rutt, where people just spit out the scripts of dissent but most people arnt 'feeling it' and its no longer able to affect anything. people are just going thru the motions and revolution is only a pose within the market.
it seemed like people thought that was a new feeling, but someone suggested it could be the same for every generation which this movie might support.
other than that this movie treads the line between being trying to be accesible and being deliberatly difficult. thats something i like in a film
it has all classic godard perversity, base humour to contrast with the analytical monologues, political ambivalence, intrusive musical interludes, confusing self reference, simultaneous translation...
its really formally beautiful and inovative, alternately naive and brutal.
it got really badly slated at the time, but i found it a really interesting, very attractive, discussion of the 'problem' of being a middle class leftist.
so, yeah, i'm just making a little recommendation... and i'd like to hear what anyone else thought.