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Godard reminds me of how much I love cinema. The absolute opposite of propaganda; crude, half-boiled war statements and philosophies, looks awful on porpuse and absolutely nothing makes sense. As someone who loves surrealism and absurd humour, I love this, perhaps even more than I should. I can't help but wonder though if so many people would be praising it if Godard's name wasn't attached to it. The cinema scene is beautiful and should be seen by every film lover everywhere.

The famous postcard scene and a few others are Godard at his best, but they only serve to underline how conceptually thin the rest of the movie is. It has those wonderfully ambiguous moments, but they aren't frequent enough to make it a complete success.

Godard has succeeded in making an anti-war film. He's also succeeded in making an incredibly dull and lifeless film. It's almost as bad as Tout va Bien.

I like the idea of what Godard is attempting here, but I think he fails at it. And it's so bad (deliberately) that it's impossible to enjoy on any level except the conceptual. If I didn't know it was Godard, and didn't know anything about it, I would have assumed it was just some horrid, pretentious student project.

This whole film was a little lame. The filmmaking itself is below par, especially coming from a guy like Godard. The presentation certainly isn't memorable, it's a little sloppy which is understandable for a low budge film but some of it just seemed careless. The film itself didn't evoke much of an emotional response with me either. A great deal of this was obviously done purposefully but it didn't work for me at all, instead it just seemed really simple and almost contentless.

Not Godard's most engaging work, but I enjoyed the absurdity of it.