In Praise of Love
Drama
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2001
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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.
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Runtime:
99 min
Release date:
16 May 2001
Country:
FR, CH, DE
Languages:
English, French, German
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins & 3 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Godard has created such a hermetic, uncompromising world that only the hardiest cinematic spelunkers are likely to appreciate its depths.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
20 Jun 2003
fresh:
It's the intellectual ride of your life, as far as moviegoing goes.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
20 Jun 2003
fresh:
A haunting, intense work, intellectually exploratory yet too emotionally acute in its melancholy to be considered merely academic.
– Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail,
14 Jun 2003
fresh:
The movie's ripe, enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries.
– Gene Seymour,
Newsday,
28 May 2003
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,
6 Dec 2002