Film socialisme

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.

very intellectual i like it

Do not watch this if you don't speak French.

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

Mixed media has once again been employed by Godard to raise important questions about global society (where we've been, where we are, where we're going) in a post-GFC, hyper-technologised world ridden with uncertainty. His dissonant overlapping of imagery and sound reflects this contemporary sense of disorientation, of being cast adrift on shifting sand. Nobody captures this state of being better than him, at least in quasi-experimental film, but it's an exhausting experience.

Easily the most pretentious film I have ever seen.

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.

Despite the obscure, dissonant tapestry, and the persistent hints at anti-Semitism, this gets better and better as it goes along, building a sense of history as unfolding tragedy and a largely foreboding future. Somehow Godard does succeed in using snippets of quotation, music and images, together with the barest rudiments of narrative, to raise real questions about the future of politics on this globalised globe. Also: first 45 minutes is set on the Costa Concordia...with Alain Badiou aboard.

Star Rating: ★★★★1/2

60.500

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.

i enjoy this first of all for it's uncompromising artistic sensibility

godard's treastise on consumerism, and imperialism, and the decline of...um...well...ah, fuck it, i think i need to go back to his 60s stuff. i really don't know why i got this out, because i didn't expect to like it. also i wonder what all that extreme audio panning was all about. perhaps he was trying to tell me not to watch movies with headphones.

Estreava há 10 anos no Festival de Cannes. Talvez esse seja o meu Godard favorito da última década, em 2010 a união socialista de vozes ainda era possível (quando a gente ainda não sabia que grande porcentagem das pessoas ao redor do globo é tão estúpida quanto é mau-caráter), por isso é sempre bom revisitar filmes sob a égide da perspectiva histórica e do nosso próprio amadurecimento e quanto mais isso acontece, mais Godard fica palpável. Plus https://youtu.be/z3U0udLH974

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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

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

The lack of proper subtitles is maddening given that I don't speak French. Apparently there is a DVD with a full English translation but I don't even want to think about watching this again. And I've loved Godard in the past.

57.375

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.

This is unwatchable without proper subtitles, so the score has to stand unless I ever get up the stomach to attempt to watch this again with non-pretentious subtitles. I actually had to stop watching it, which I've never done before.

Exhausting...

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.

Mostly passed miles above me. I wasn't in the right mindset to watch it. To rewatch.