Eloge de l'amour
Time Out says
The wilful difficulty of Godard lost him his English audience with 1987's King Lear. Though hardly a conventional narrative - passages of sombre grandeur vie with sequences of irritating obscurity - this offers evidence of a desire to communicate, which may recommend it to a new audience. Autobiography appears to play a part. In Lear he cast a director (Carax) to play Edgar - a name given to the director (Putzulu) at the centre of Eloge. To summarise: in the first half (shot memorably in b/w), Edgar muses in voiceover about a project he wishes to make (a play, a movie or an opera); three couples are profiled, as is the young actress he hopes to cast. The second half, in colour-drenched DV, flashes back two years to describe a conflict between a Hollywood producer and an elderly couple whose Resistance story he wants to film; their granddaughter (Camp) is the young actress. How these parts comment on each other is unclear. What is clear is that Godard's obsessions (anti-globalisation, the role of art and cinema in life, etc) are as passionately held as ever, though their precise meaning remains elusive.
Details
Release details
Rated:
PG
Duration:
97 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Sarde, Ruth Waldburger
Screenwriter:
Jean-Luc Godard
Cast:
Bruno Putzulu
Cécile Camp
Claude Baignères
Remo Forlani
Philippe Loyrette
Audrey Klebaner
Mark Hunter
Jérémy Lippmann
Jean Davy
Françoise Verny
Cécile Camp
Claude Baignères
Remo Forlani
Philippe Loyrette
Audrey Klebaner
Mark Hunter
Jérémy Lippmann
Jean Davy
Françoise Verny