55.000

Probably Godard's most demanding film. Parts of it are actually quite engaging, but after a while it starts to feel interminable, even to a diehard Godard fan like myself. Somewhat similar to 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her in that it shows the director at his most obtuse and in almost purely essayist mode, without the poetic force that the form demands (but which he would get a better grasp of in his 80s work).

My problem with Godard's essayist, 'militant' films is that they are little more than his own vaguely-comprehensible philosophical tangents. I admire his clever juxtapositions of sound and image, but after watching this, you may find yourself only having absorbed 10% of its content. Ultimately, far too demanding and obtuse to be truly 'enjoyed' by anybody but the most diehard of Marxist theorists. For a film about sparking revolution, the words ring hollow--nothing but tales of sound and fury.