Le gai savoir

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.

Easily the most difficult Godard movie I have seen up to this point, but also kinda beautiful in its own way. Love the way he uses images from cartoons and comic books, in a very sharp contrast to how serious (and maybe dull?) the film is.

54.500

E assim que gosto meu Godard, derridiano-lacaniano comunista. Esse filme é o exemplo máximo que grande filósofo da imagem ele era e porque o coloco entre a nata intelectual francesa dos anos 60/70 ao lado de Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Derrida, Lacan e Althusser. BlurayRip no MakingOff.

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).