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In Praise of Love (2001)

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Reviews Counted:72

Fresh:37

Rotten:35

Average Rating:5.7/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Sep 6, 2002 Limited

Box Office: $38,844

Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard has returned to the existential, surreal world he mined in the 1960s with IN PRAISE OF LOVE, which was up for the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was chosen as the... Jean-Luc Godard has returned to the existential, surreal world he mined in the 1960s with IN PRAISE OF LOVE, which was up for the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was chosen as the closing film for the 39th Annual New York Film Festival. Godard's film is about nothing and everything as a man continually speaks of his "project," with many of the characters conversing offscreen in fabulously vague and confusing parables and platitudes. The plot comes in bits and pieces, in memorable shots and bizarre scenes: a man reads a blank book; an attractive woman passes by a car and flashes the passengers; Hollywood wants to buy the story of an older couple who fought in the French Resistance; and such familiar Godardian themes as death, art, politics, and religion are discussed, however anamorphically. And then, suddenly, the 35mm black-and-white film is awash in reds and oranges as Godard switches to color digital video when the story goes back two years into the past, and the camera starts and stop, freezing on various shots, then moving on. As with the best of Godard, IN PRAISE OF LOVE is challenging, difficult, nonlinear, and wholly original, so unlike anything else. [More]

Starring: Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy, Françoise Verny

Starring: Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy, Françoise Verny, Philippe Lyrette, Audrey Klebaner, Jeremy Lippman, Claude Baignières

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard
Studio: Manhattan Pictures International

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All the beauty does not make the film even half as profound as it so obviously strives to be.

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12/28/08
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
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08/07/08
Mark Halverson
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07/21/05
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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.

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04/23/05
Derek Smith
Derek Smith
Cinematic Reflections

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

Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS) | comment Comment
07/05/04
Jake Euker
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12/15/03
Alexander Walker
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12/15/03
Christopher Tookey
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

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

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
12/04/03
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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.

Full Review Source: Film and Felt | comment Comment
08/27/03
Gabe Leibowitz
Gabe Leibowitz
Film and Felt

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

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
06/20/03
Ann Hornaday
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Washington Post
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It's the intellectual ride of your life, as far as moviegoing goes.

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06/20/03
Desson Thomson
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Washington Post
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A haunting, intense work, intellectually exploratory yet too emotionally acute in its melancholy to be considered merely academic.

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06/14/03
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
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The movie's ripe, enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries.

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05/28/03
Gene Seymour
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Newsday
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It's intriguing, visually arresting and utterly impenetrable!

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
05/06/03
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Film Threat

When a character comments 'too many changes are in the air that lack a means of expression,' one senses that Godard, at 72, is still struggling to communicate those changes through the medium of film.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
03/06/03
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

An unsuccessful attempt at a movie of ideas.

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01/24/03
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

The 70-year-old Godard has become, to judge from In Praise of Love, the sort of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to correct them.

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01/19/03
Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

Gone are the days of an exciting existentialist movie mastermind who once knew how to stroke the consciousness of the enthusiastically challenged, adventurous moviegoer.

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
01/15/03
Frank Ochieng
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