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Godard has created such a hermetic, uncompromising world that only the hardiest cinematic spelunkers are likely to appreciate its depths.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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In Praise of Love
Overview
Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.
Director and cast
- Jean-Luc Godard Director
- Bruno Putzulu as Edgar
- Cécile Camp as Elle
- Jean Davy as Grandfather
- Françoise Verny as Grandmother
- Audrey Klebaner as Eglantine
- Jérémie Lippmann as Perceval
- Claude Baignières as Mr. Rosenthal
- Rémo Forlani as Mayor Forlani
- Mark Hunter as U.S. Journalist
- Jean Lacouture as Historian
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
51%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It's the intellectual ride of your life, as far as moviegoing goes.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
A haunting, intense work, intellectually exploratory yet too emotionally acute in its melancholy to be considered merely academic.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Fresh
The movie's ripe, enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries.
Gene Seymour, Newsday
Rotten
The best indication of the film's pretentiousness comes from recurrent images of a book with blank pages, as if to point out that Godard has nothing to say, but so what? Let's throw in a few images and people will come anyway.
Marta Barber, Miami Herald
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