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12/30/06
In Praise of Love (2001)
53 %
Reviews Counted: 70 Fresh: 37 Rotten:33 Average Rating: 5.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard has returned to the existential, surreal world he mined in the 1960s with IN PRAISE OF LOVE, which was up for the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was chosen as the closing film for the 39th Annual New York Film Festival. Godard's film is about nothing and everything as a... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy, Françoise Verny, Philippe Lyrette
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02/09/06
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12/15/03
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12/15/03
This is the first Godard film released in the UK in 14 years ... and on this evidence we can see why.
12/10/01
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11/24/01
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A densely constructed, highly referential film, and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among Jean-Luc Godard's finest work.
11/19/01
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07/21/05
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Love, in Godard’s case, is indistinguishable from cinema and thus he sees the growing capitalist machine as a threat to both.
04/23/05
Free-associative, unreasonable and stubborn, unresolved, and elegiac in tone, In Praise of Love is a great meditation on memory, aging, and love.
07/05/04
What keeps me coming back to a filmmaker I never warmed up to, is that I find the rascal irresistible.
12/04/03
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.
08/27/03
Godard has created such a hermetic, uncompromising world that only the hardiest cinematic spelunkers are likely to appreciate its depths.
06/20/03
A haunting, intense work, intellectually exploratory yet too emotionally acute in its melancholy to be considered merely academic.
06/14/03
The movie's ripe, enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries.
05/28/03
When a character comments 'too many changes are in the air that lack a means of expression,' one senses that Godard, at 72, is still struggling to communicate those changes through the medium of film.
03/06/03
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