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In Praise Of Love (Éloge de l'amour) (2001)

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Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 11

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Cinematic iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard returns to the front ranks of contemporary filmmaking while embracing the digital video revolution (no great surprise, given his eager and early embrace of video technology in the 1970s) with this drama. In the first part of the film, shot on 35 mm black-and-white film, a filmmaker named Edgar (Bruno Putzulu) is in the midst of a casting session with his producers, looking for the leading lady for his next film. More interested in discussing philosophy than

PG, 1 hr. 37 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Jean-Luc Godard

Jul 22, 2003

$38.8k

Manhattan Pictures International

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All Critics (81) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (35) | DVD (7)

Godard has created such a hermetic, uncompromising world that only the hardiest cinematic spelunkers are likely to appreciate its depths.

June 20, 2003 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
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It's the intellectual ride of your life, as far as moviegoing goes.

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A haunting, intense work, intellectually exploratory yet too emotionally acute in its melancholy to be considered merely academic.

June 14, 2003 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
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The movie's ripe, enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries.

May 28, 2003 Full Review Source: Newsday | Comment
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The trick when watching Godard is to catch the pitch of his poetics, savor the pleasure of his sounds and images, and ponder the historical, philosophical, and ethical issues that intersect with them.

November 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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Godard ceased being a voice in the wilderness and became a voice in the wind, howling against demons that refused even to acknowledge his protests.

November 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment
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All the beauty does not make the film even half as profound as it so obviously strives to be.

December 28, 2008 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
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Love, in Godard's case, is indistinguishable from cinema and thus he sees the growing capitalist machine as a threat to both.

April 23, 2005 Full Review Source: Cinematic Reflections | Comment

Free-associative, unreasonable and stubborn, unresolved, and elegiac in tone, In Praise of Love is a great meditation on memory, aging, and love.

July 5, 2004 Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS) | Comment

What keeps me coming back to a filmmaker I never warmed up to, is that I find the rascal irresistible.

December 4, 2003 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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Ultimately, though, In Praise of Love is about themes, about the anti-Hollywood sentiment that Godard feels so passionately about, and this is where the film begins to crumble.

August 27, 2003 Full Review Source: Film and Felt | Comment
Film and Felt

Though some will see it as the ultimate litmus test of film pretentiousness, others are likely to surrender to Godard's never-ending inner dialogue.

July 16, 2003 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

It's intriguing, visually arresting and utterly impenetrable!

May 6, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
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The usage of challenging montage and hews aren't an important advantage of this Godard flick.Le dialogue probablement to semi-quote another movie.Naturally,incorporating novels/poetry in the midst of affection and ashes of past loves brings new reactions from both critics and investigating audiences.Condemning the U.S.

August 31, 2008
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Dimitris Springer

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Visually stunning but dull and pretentious. Godard has lost it.

November 17, 2010
Jonny Berry

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