Les carabiniers (1963)

An average movie

“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was directed by Jean-Luc Godard and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. It was one of his earlier works but, back then, the guy was already taking his distance from traditional narrative filmmaking. Still, it was pretty cool to see the master of French New Wave delivering a war film and, well, it was pretty obvious that the guy was seriously anti-war. It’s interesting that, even though the scenes during which these two naïve farmers were recruited might seem ridiculous, I don’t think it was so far-fetched after all. Indeed, in France, I got lucky and the military conscription was cancelled just before I was supposed to be enrolled. Instead, you had to go to what they” read more