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. Well, I was a while since I saw a movie directed by Godard but, right away, I was reminded how borderline unwatchable his work can be. I mean, I really loved ‘À bout de souffle’, after all these years, it is still one of my favorite movies but, to be honest, pretty much everything else this guy has delivered was usually seriously hard to digest and this movie was not an exception, I’m afraid. At least, as I grow older, I think I’m slightly more able to understand what he is trying to do. Basically, what Godard tried to do with this movie but also pretty much all his movies, is to completely reject the traditional narrative rules involved in film making. As a result, you don’t really have a plot or some actual characters, you have instead, well, ‘something’ else. Indeed, you don’t have some actual dialogues and everyone speaks in riddles. Even with the shots, many of them or even most of them didn’t follow the usual conventions in this area. Anyway, even if I do respect this original approach, it never really dazzled me, in fact, it is usually rather uncomfortable to watch. In this specific case, there was also the fact that there were numerous nubile girls (Aurelle Doazan, Emmanuelle Seigner, Julie Delpy) often involved in some rather ambiguous situations and you might seriously wonder what was the added value here. At least, the rest of the cast was pretty neat (Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Baye, Claude Brasseur, Johnny Hallyday), especially Nathalie Baye who was just so charming and charismatic in this movie. Anyway, to conclude, even if I had a hard time to care about the damned thing, it was still a decent watch and I think it is worth a look, at least, if you are interested in Jean-Luc Godard’s work.