Sunday, May 03, 2015
Longest hour in DVD land
There is a cult, or used to be, around the work of Jean-Luc Godard.
I could never see it, so to speak.
But then I am not French, not avant-garde and do not have a history of worship at his shrine.
In a way, his newest and perhaps last film is not so hard to take.
It is only an hour and ten minutes long and it moves right along. It also has a great dog in it. I kept worrying that the dog would be hurt. Almost, once. But, no.
There are a lot of images here. They kept me hopping. Naked ladies and men, not too attractive naked. The dog. Very interesting in the same way that Marcus is interesting to watch. But this was not our family dog. Another breed.
There are a lot of images in saturated color. Godard must have discovered the various knobs and adjustment on a video camera. A new gadget to be plundered.
I am glad that I saw it but there is no chance I will see it again. And, honest, I fast forwarded when we got too interested in a running river.
A 2 out of Netflix5. Even though the skipping would make it a 1.*
* Just for a refresher course in my rating system. 5=I will see it again and even buy it; 4=Loved it but not enough to see it again; 3=Good average film fare; 2=Didn't like it much but sat through it all; 1=Stopped in the middle or skipped on FF a lot
Labels: films