Film Socialisme (Godard, 2010): Cine Lumiere, 2.00pm
This presentation is part of the Jean-Luc Godard season at Cine Lumiere. You can find all the details of the season here.
Chicago Reader review:
Challenging but unfailingly gorgeous, this 2010 feature achieves one of
Jean-Luc Godard's greatest ambitions: to reclaim political agitprop as
the stuff of symbolist poetry. Like T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land,
it's designed as a Tower of Babel, with dialogue in several languages
(the comically stripped-down English subtitles, which Godard calls
"Navajo English," won’t make things easier for monoglots) and allusions
to politics, history, art, and philosophy. Beneath the imposing
structure, though, is a simple, eloquent plea for humanism amid the
fractured culture of the 21st century. With characteristic perversity,
Godard shot this "film" in a variety of digital video formats, and he
seems invigorated by the postcinematic landscape (especially its utopian
social aspect), finding classical beauty nearly everywhere he looks. At
79, Godard has again made a young man's movie.
Ben Sachs
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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