La Chinoise **
Jean-Luc Godard, 1967
France
@ Northwest Film Forum
I felt like I took more pleasure out of this than some other of Godard's stuff. It could be that I simply had lower entertainment expectations of anything post-Weekend, but it could also be that Godard had more comfortably moved beyond the impulse to parody or directly engage with traditional film forms. In my opinion, Weekend is strongest when we're just watching the talking heads, engaged in direct political conversation, and not when the actors are pretend-acting. There's obviously a lot more political rhetoric here, and much of the humor comes through the faux-documentary cracks, between the seemingly serious lines being uttered by the young communists.
See also: IMDb | J. Hoberman review
Jean-Luc Godard, 1967
France
@ Northwest Film Forum
I felt like I took more pleasure out of this than some other of Godard's stuff. It could be that I simply had lower entertainment expectations of anything post-Weekend, but it could also be that Godard had more comfortably moved beyond the impulse to parody or directly engage with traditional film forms. In my opinion, Weekend is strongest when we're just watching the talking heads, engaged in direct political conversation, and not when the actors are pretend-acting. There's obviously a lot more political rhetoric here, and much of the humor comes through the faux-documentary cracks, between the seemingly serious lines being uttered by the young communists.
See also: IMDb | J. Hoberman review
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