In Praise of Love

Critics Consensus

Jean-Luc Godard remains a challenging filmmaker with admirable ambition, but In Praise of Love is too self-indulgent and bereft of stylistic pleasure to engage beyond the auteur's most patient fans.

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In Praise of Love Photos

Bruno Putzulu stars as Edgar in the Jean-Luc Godard film IN PRAISE OF LOVE.

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Movie Info

An author is working on a project about love told through three couples -- one young, one mature, one elderly. The author is working with a woman he met three years earlier while she was training as a lawyer. The woman's grandparents are approached by an American studio to make a movie about their activities during the Nazi occupation of France.

Rating:

PG (Thematic Elements|Brief Language)
Genre:

drama
Original Language:

French (Canada)
Director:

Jean-Luc Godard
Release Date (Theaters):

Sep 6, 2002 wide
Box Office (Gross USA):

$251.7K
Runtime:

1h 37m
Production Co:

Le Studio Canal +, Arte France Cinema, Les Films Alain Sarde
Sound Mix:

Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio:

Flat (1.85:1)

Cast & Crew

Bruno Putzulu
Edgar

Cecile Camp
Elle

Jean Davy
Grandfather

Audrey Klebaner
Eglantine

Remo Forlani
Mr. Forlani

Mark Hunter
US Journalist

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Critic Reviews for In Praise Of Love (Éloge de l'amour)

All Critics (73) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (35)

Éloge de l'Amour has the internal intricacy, precision, and above all, the tenderness of a late Beethoven chamber work.

October 8, 2019 | Full Review…

Amy Taubin
Village Voice
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December 30, 2006 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Empire Magazine
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…

Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
It's the intellectual ride of your life, as far as moviegoing goes.

June 20, 2003

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

June 14, 2003 | Rating: 4/4

Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
The movie's ripe, enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries.

May 28, 2003 | Rating: 3/4

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

December 28, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com
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August 7, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review
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 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…

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.

July 5, 2004 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)
What keeps me coming back to a filmmaker I never warmed up to, is that I find the rascal irresistible.

December 4, 2003 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz 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.

August 27, 2003 | Rating: 53/100 | Full Review…

Gabe Leibowitz
Film and Felt

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Audience Reviews for In Praise Of Love (Éloge de l'amour)

Jan 09, 2012

I am just waiting for the cinephiles to jump all over me. A measly three stars for the return of the great Godard. The truth is that I wasn't terribly moved..and perhaps I wasn't meant to be. It's over my head.

John B Super Reviewer
Nov 17, 2010

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

Jonny B Super Reviewer
Aug 31, 2008

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. on past events isn't our problem as well.It's repetition.Godard's films are so clever,it's impossible to rate them fewer than this (unless they're heavily experimental?),I just felt he was cockier than before.

Dimitris S Super Reviewer