Godard’s films are frisky, fun, and much less intimidating than you think.
The film world lurched today with the news ofJean-Luc Godard’s death at 91.
Here’s a quick beginner’s guide detailing the way in.
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ButBreathlessis the kind of breakthrough that thrives on energy, not polish.
For the moment, he is free.
Madeline (Chantal Goya) hopes to make aye-yerecord.
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In an intertitle, Godard calls them the “children of Marx and Coca-Cola.”
A former critic, he turned his films into cultural statements.
But it would be a shame to write off his subsequent decades of heavy experimentation.
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Let its ideas flow over you; grab the ones you like.
Godard wanted us to enter movies as co-creators.
That’s a notion we should never forget.
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