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Try Pierrot le fou, Contempt, Alphaville... However Breathless is (one of?) the easiest of Godard's movies. Notice that you're supposed to suffer to watch many
by wazoox 4y ago
Try Pierrot le fou, Contempt, Alphaville... However Breathless is (one of?) the easiest of Godard's movies.
Notice that you're supposed to suffer to watch many of his movies. It's part of the experience, to prove that you're part of the intellectual elite that "gets it".
- kingkawn 4y agoHis films take apart the mannerisms of film and French society. anti-intellectual shots at him are only a lost opportunity to know a moving, meaningful artist
- wazoox 4y agoIn fact it's the opposite: I'm a staunch intellectual, snob Frenchman. I can't stand brain-damaged Hollywood entertainment (I'd rather stand 2 hours under the rain than watching any Avengers movie). The cultural gap may require time and effort to cross to be able to appreciate Godard (or Bergman, or Rohmer, ...) when you're into mass culture.
- eternalban 4y agoLOL, this reminded me of Gene Hackman's character in Night Moves on Rohmer: https://vimeo.com/8688973 https://vimeo.com/8688973
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- kingkawn 4y agoattempt to scramble to the top of some crumbled European high-cultural ground to throw stones at low culture is just as dumb as being dismissive of Godard but, that said, i was responding to the parent comment and accidentally got nested under you
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoIf you are suffering watching Breathless and Pierrot le fou, I feel a bit sad for you.
- wazoox 4y agoI'm not, but for some of his movies it's obviously part of the project.