An essay on death and cinema (both physical and cultural,) JLG/JLG is bursting with the genius and humor of ...Godard.
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JLG/JLG (1994) by Jean-Luc Godard
Jlg/jlg at 60 minutes is one of the most accessible films of Godard's third period.
An essay on death and cinema (both physical and cultural,) JLG/JLG is bursting with the genius and humor of ...Godard.
Amy Taubin: (NY. VILLAGE VOICE) said, " Radiant, cranky, tender, poignant, voluptuous, revelatory, this putative self-portrait is actually an elegy for the death of cinema." BEST FILM OF 1995
Dave Kehr: (New York Daily News) "...a parade of perfectly composed images (there is no better eye at work in the movies than Godard's) JLG/JLG is a treat for the senses."
SYNOPSIS: JLG/JLG (1994) Jean-Luc Godard stars in this film as a fictional character of his own creation. JLG muses about in his home in Rolle, Switzerland in the dead of winter. He suffers the rude interruption of critics and the cheeky services of a pretty maid while contemplating the end of western culture, cinema, and himself. A busy day... but still with time for tragedy, tennis and television.
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This masterwork is a tale of love and betrayal between humans and gods in this desolate age. GERARD DEPARDIEU, as the Greek god Zeus , may have entered the body of Simon (also played by Depardieu) to experience love and sexual desire with Simon's wife Rachel. In a modern Swiss lake side resort, a book publisher arrives to investigate and solve the mystery of this happening. Did this event occur? Has Rachel been unfaithful to her husband, herself and her God?
This 90 minute masterpiece in 1994 was the first feature film by Godard to be theatrically distributed in North America in ten years.
Much of the credit to the recent rebirth of interest in Godard's later work must be credited to HELAS POUR MOI which had a rather rocky production with Depardieu departing the set early in frustration with Godard's work habits and then forcing Godard to fight his way out of the ruins of one film by again creating yet another film within a film.
One of the most critically praised feature films theatrically
released in 1994 this poetic and profound quest for spiritual meaning is
a timeless masterpiece.
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Caryn James, NEW YORK TIMES " About the search for faith , memory, truth and love. A surprise to anyone who thinks Godard as a cold and cerebral filmaker...warm and more quietly provocative than he has been in years. The rewards are profound."
Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES " A stunning experience... no one can charge an image with so much emotion, so much thought. Confounding, utterly demanding and finally stunning expression of a longing for emotional and spirtual redemption.
Ray Greene, BOXOFFICE " **** A masterwork. Like almost every great spiritual artifact, HELAS POUR MOI is a beautiful riddle."
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