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Eloge De L'Amour [2001]
Jean-Luc Godard's eagerly awaitedEloge de l'Amourwas one of the highlights of the 2001
... more
Cannes Film Festival, dividing critics between those who loved its extraordinary beauty and those who foundit hard to discern an overall theme from a multitude of co...
Eloge De L'Amour [2001]
Jean-Luc Godard's eagerly awaitedEloge de l'Amourwas one of the highlights of the 2001
... more
Cannes Film Festival, dividing critics between those who loved its extraordinary beauty and those who found it hard to discern an overall theme from a multitude of c...
Actor(s): Bruno Putzulu, Cecile Camp, Jean Davy, Claude Baignieres, Audrey Klebaner, Jeremy Lippman, Philippe Lyrette, Francoise Verny
Director(s): Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Drama
Classification: Parental Guidance
Production Year: 2001
Running Time: 1 hour 34 minutes
Video Category: World Cinema Feature Film
Country Of Origin: France
Plot: Jean-Luc Godard has returned to the existential, surreal world he mined in the 1960s with IN PRAISE OF LOVE, which was up for the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was chosen as the closing film for the 39th Annual New York Film Festival. Godard's film is about nothing and everything as a man continually speaks of his project, with many of the characters conversing offscreen in fabulously vague and confusing parables and platitudes. The plot comes in bits and pieces, in memorable shots and bizarre scenes: a man reads a blank book; an attractive woman passes by a car and flashes the passengers; Hollywood wants to buy the story of an older couple who fought in the French Resistance; and such familiar Godardian themes as death, art, politics, and religion are discussed, however anamorphically. And then, suddenly, the 35mm black-and-white film is awash in reds and oranges as Godard switches to color digital video when the story goes back two years into the past, and the camera starts and stop, freezing on various shots, then moving on. As with the best of Godard, IN PRAISE OF LOVE is challenging, difficult, nonlinear, and wholly original, so unlike anything else.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): Optimum Home Entertainment
Release date: 25/03/2002
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: OPTD 0011
Barcode: 5060034570202
Writer: Jean-Luc Godard
Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard
Director of Photography: Christophe Pollock, Françoise Musy, Julien Hirsch
Languages
Main Language: French
Subtitle Language: English
DVD Description
Jean-Luc Godard has returned to the existential, surreal world he mined in the 1960s with IN PRAISE OF LOVE, which was up for the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was chosen as the closing film for the 39th Annual New York Film Festival. Godard's film is about nothing and everything as a man continually speaks of his project, with many of the characters conversing offscreen in fabulously vague and confusing parables and platitudes. The plot comes in bits and pieces, in memorable shots and bizarre scenes: a man reads a blank book; an attractive woman passes by a car and flashes the passengers; Hollywood wants to buy the story of an older couple who fought in the French Resistance; and such familiar Godardian themes as death, art, politics, and religion are discussed, however anamorphically. And then, suddenly, the 35mm black-and-white film is awash in reds and oranges as Godard switches to color digital video when the story goes back two years into the past, and the camera starts and stop, freezing on various shots, then moving on. As with the best of Godard, IN PRAISE OF LOVE is challenging, difficult, nonlinear, and wholly original, so unlike anything else.
Technical information
Special Features: Featurette - 1. JEAN LUC GODDARD INTERVIEW, Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer, Biography - 1. Jean Luc Goddard
Professional reviews
Review: "...The performances are fresh and uninhibited....ELOGE DE L'AMOUR is its director's most substantial feature for some time..." (Sight and Sound, p.36-46, 01/11/2001)
"...Polemical and playful, this is the work of an artist still inspired by cinema's expressive possibilities..." (Total Film, p.102, 01/12/2001)
Advantages: Beautiful landscapes, great acting, compelling story Disadvantages: You have to see the next film to complete the story!
...Jean De Florette and Manon Des Sources, both from 1986, are two of the best-loved and most celebrated films in French cinema. They're adapted from the "L'Eau De Collines" books written by Marcel Pagnol, and really it's best to see them as two parts of the same story, rather than as the original film and its sequel. Jean De Florette won a whole heap of Bafta nominations in that year, and strangely it won Best Film overall yet missed out on Best Foreign Film! However it wasn't even nominated for an Oscar, which is a shame.
It tells the tragic story of two greedy farmers in the French countryside. César Soubeyran (played by Yves Montard) and his nephew, Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) want to grow carnations in their soil, and thus make a comfortable living. However, they don't have enough water, so they offer to buy the land of a neighbour...
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Advantages: An amazing film. Disadvantages: None in my opinion - subtitles might put some off though (which is a shame)
...The reason for the 'première partie' is that this review is split into two reviews: what I'm actually reviewing is the one story - L'eau des Collines, comprising of Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources.
Background:
I think it's fair to say that many films have come about because of a novel. However, how often can you say that a film has then gone on to inspire a book? 'Manon des Sources' was perhaps one of the first films to inspire a book. Now this is where it gets a bit confusing, because the 'Manon des Sources' I'm refering to is the original, made in 1952 by Marcel Pagnol, who had made a name for himself in the 1930s as one of France's most successful and respected independent film makers, with films such as 'Topaze,' 'César,' and 'La Femme du Boulanger'.
In the original version of the film, Pagnol tells the story that had...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Advantages: Charming and a classic mustsee film Disadvantages: Subtitles (this is a French film), oddity, simplicity
...are:
1. If you find subtitles irritating, beware.
2. My boyfriend, who didn't like it, found the film
a little too quirky and insubstantial.
3. If you are looking for action and a grand finale,
definitely look elsewhere...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful
somewhat helpful 13.04.2003
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