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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
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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Reviews for In Praise of Love
The beautiful images and solemn words cannot disguise the slack complacency of [Godard's] vision, any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice.
In my own very humble opinion, In Praise of Love lacks even the most fragmented charms I have found in almost all of his previous works.
Godard has created such a hermetic, uncompromising world that only the hardiest cinematic spelunkers are likely to appreciate its depths.
Even when he's not at his most critically insightful, Godard can still be smarter than any 50 other filmmakers still at work.
Like the best of Godard's movies ... it is visually ravishing, penetrating, impenetrable.
The work of an exhausted, desiccated talent who can't get out of his own way.
Watching this movie is like going to a quantum physics symposium in Chinese, you're sure what they are doing is brilliant - you just don't get it - and don't care.
Feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fights, of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders, of playing with narrative form.
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