Film socialisme Reviews

Devotees will be delighted by the dense difficulty, but this is really more idiosyncratic than insightful.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Whether or not you believe Jean-Luc Godard's declaration that "Cinema is dead", the 80-year-old 'enfant terrible' certainly attempts to put it out of its misery with this impenetrable three-act brainfart.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It makes a mockery of the star-rating system. How to judge a film on those terms when there's nothing to judge it against?

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

An interesting and often beautiful work that suffers the pangs of artistic condescension.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Only die hard Jean-Luc Godard fans could appreciate this failed experiment. I am not a die hard fan.

Full Review | Original Score: D

..a technically ambitious effort for such an aged filmmaker, with changing visual styles and disjunctive sound design, but its substance feels juvenile, as if merely throwing out a wide net of provocative constructs would form them into a coherent essay.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

This is Godard's most focused statement in years. Yet what he's saying is often leftist agitprop.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Those receptive to Godard's sense of humor will find "Film Socialisme" an elusive yet expansive provocation. Those less receptive will find it elusive, period.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

This film is an affront. It is incoherent, maddening, deliberately opaque and heedless of the ways in which people watch movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

The artistic fire that has driven him for the past half-century is still blazing away after all these years.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Cranky old Godard can be tiresome, but his reactionary radicalism is still illuminated by flashes of brilliance.

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Some brave publicist came up with the tagline "Ideas separate us, dreams bring us together" to sum up the spirit of Jean-Luc Godard's new film, his first in six years. Twelve months on and I'm still trying to figure out what it all might mean.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A work of poetry.

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Goddard's vaguely accessible collage-essay on the ennui of the modern existential moment, "Socialism" is an inarticulate bestiary of bullshittery.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Only ardent followers will gravitate to this enigmatic work.

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Like most of Jean-Luc Godard's other essay films, is all over the place and (purposely) impossible to follow.

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Jean-Luc Godard's latest is gorgeously photographed but his most inscrutable film yet.

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It's upsetting that I spent 90 minutes of my life wrestling with this movie to get absolutely nothing out of it, except a desire to take Godard's camera away and put him in a nursing home.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

It's Godard, in what may or may not be the final chapter of his filmmaking career -- at 80 he's just a kid compared to director Manoel de Oliveira, over 100 years old and still making movies -- and he's still deliberately messing with the audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The kind of rare cinematic challenge that was made for film students- and likely to try the patience of anyone else.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5