Comments on: Jean-Luc Godard Goes 3D: Watch Trailers For ‘Adieu Au Langage’ & Omnibus ‘3X3D’

By: tyrannosaurus max

tyrannosaurus max — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:34:57 +0000

3x3D looks so badass….

By: fry

fry — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:34:57 +0000

That trailer looks like the average film student assignment done by every single undergraduate on the face of the earth. I respect Godard for his enormous contribution to the medium but the man clearly has a love/hate relationship with cinema. He loves movies and has been an adept historian and critic as one can tell watching Histoire(s), but when I'm watching his recent films I'm always under the impression that they're being made by a man who truly hates making movies, or maybe hates the audience, I don't know which one, but that's what I see.

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:34:57 +0000

I know it's popular to say Godard has gone off the deep end post-Weekend. But I don't think this has been true for over 20 years now. Go watch King Lear, Nouvelle Vague, For Ever Mozart, Eloge de l'amour, Film Socialisme. All of these films look and feel like 60s Godard, though evolved obviously, especially Eloge de l'amour, which I think is just as much of a masterpiece as his other Bretchian pieces like Pierrot le fou or Weekend, and is very clearly Godardian. It's clear he went a bit bonkers during the 70s and early 80s, but post-King Lear he's very much returned to the 60s Godard we once knew. The difference is, he's just dispensed the pop art aesthetic and has just left the "core" of what his films were always about to begin with.

I'll admit though, I'm a bit worried about Adieu au language. It feels like it's just designed to give the middle finger to Hollywood. Sure, he ribbed Hollywood (and America) in Eloge de l'amour, but I'm not sure an entire film premised on that idea would be successful.