Easily the most pretentious film I have ever seen.

Witness the wisdom and craft in Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme, an elite director's latest challenge to audience and critic to conflate cinema with reality -- to deal with ruminative vignettes and dialogue that defy convention. His latest film has the images of the year (be they new or archival) and conclusions that demonstrate an individuality and critical perspective absent from more prosaic works. He's the best director we have and Film Socialisme is another defiantly abstract triumph.

say whatever you want, but no one but godard can make a godard movie. going against the very notion of discourse that most movies abide to, it's a movie "about" some "characters" but also about words, colors, voices, the world, etc. kind of indescribable, but very amusing in a hipnotic/academic kind of way.

In a totally modern way, but with a soviet sensibility, Godard steps into the YouTube age and crafts a continental The man with a camera for our generation, using the capitalist world and its decay just to sabotage it again and again through each dialogue, image and noise.

More than a storyteller, always a poet, Jean-Luc Godard continues to challenge how movies function and how we look at them.

The closest thing I can compare this to is Haneke's Code Unknown, except Socialism is, in a way, purer, as if Godard is trying to get back to the form's genesis. He asks, now that we're living in a digital age, what does the film mean to us? What, if anything, have we learned from it? I really have too many jumbled questions to compile a sensible review at this time, but it's safe to say that Socialism is one of the most exciting movies I've seen in years.

Certainly one of Godard's major achievements, and possibly his definitive statement (or at the very least one of them), it feels like a culmination of much of his work, aesthetically and thematically, particularly from the 80s onward. It bravely, and often beautifully, attempts to grapple with the world we are living in more than most other films even dare to, and if it is flawed it is only because it is so dense with information that it threatens to feel twice as long as it actually is.

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"Godard has always used clips from and references to other movies in his work, and here he goes further to use other forms of media." - Aaron Cutler

I just couldn't break the code (if there was one)

Godard's sarcastic parody of socialism as a way of pushing his own ideals onto the audience frustrates to no end. 30 years later, Godard is still spewing out the same old Capitalist propaganda. Grow a pair, Jean-Luc.