Breathless ***
Jean-Luc Godard, 1960
France
@ Northwest Film Forum
Godard should be required viewing for any potentially suicidal cinephiles. He's kind of a litmus test in that if you can see his films and not get excited about at least the possibilities of film if not culture in general or life on the whole, then I suppose it really may be time to pack it in. I get the same feeling from different kinds of stuff in different media (music, novels, etc.) but perhaps it's simply from an exquisite expression of, "But maybe life is really like this?" Even if by now many or most of Godard's experiments have been digested and/or adopted by some wing of the modern cinema, his insistent restlessness with form and the devilish glee with which he goes thumbs his nose at accepted values delight me constantly.
See also: IMDb | TCMDb
Jean-Luc Godard, 1960
France
@ Northwest Film Forum
Godard should be required viewing for any potentially suicidal cinephiles. He's kind of a litmus test in that if you can see his films and not get excited about at least the possibilities of film if not culture in general or life on the whole, then I suppose it really may be time to pack it in. I get the same feeling from different kinds of stuff in different media (music, novels, etc.) but perhaps it's simply from an exquisite expression of, "But maybe life is really like this?" Even if by now many or most of Godard's experiments have been digested and/or adopted by some wing of the modern cinema, his insistent restlessness with form and the devilish glee with which he goes thumbs his nose at accepted values delight me constantly.
See also: IMDb | TCMDb
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