Éloge de l'Amour (2001)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 98 minuten
Alternative title: In Praise of Love
Country:
France / Switzerland
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp and Jean Davy
IMDb score:
6,3 (3.158)
Releasedate: 16 May 2001
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Éloge de l'Amour plot
A film divided into two parts. In part 1 a discussion takes place about a film about love. The author of the story comes into contact with a young woman he had met three years earlier. Just when the project is almost done and all financial and artistic problems have been solved, the woman dies. Part 2 deals with the previous 3 years in which the future author first met the young woman during an interview with a historian. She has been asked by her grandparents, who are former French resistance members, to investigate a contract offered by the Americans stating that they would like to make a film about the activities of the French during the Nazi occupation in France.
Reviews & comments
Vinokourov
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- 3143 messages
- 2909 votes
Okay then, this was a rather bullshit movie from Jean-Luc Godard, who doesn't feel inhibited to share all his brain fart ideas with the movie viewer in a vague quasi-philosophical film. Godard's easy and simplistic points of view (Americans suck) are also reviewed, which actually makes the film very annoying. I haven't been able to discover a coherent story either, so I didn't enjoy this film much from a story-technical point of view.
However! The fact that the film does not finally fall through the ice has to do with the cinematography. That actually looked very cool and if you don't pay too much attention to Godard nonsense, you can enjoy yourself with it. The first half of this film consists of black-and-white images, the second half of a bright color mix, with the saturation filter set to full open. I also liked the music (especially a theme played by piano and cello). However, this does not prevent me from treating this film with an unsatisfactory mark.
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Bobbejaantje
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- 2301 messages
- 2092 votes
Minor setback. An hour and a half of unframed pseudo profundities and gibberish. Meanwhile my twelfth Godard, but this one doesn't do it for me. I still respect the artistic choices he made - the first half in beautiful black and white and the second half in mottled colors - but ... what about the content. What bothers me most about these kinds of films is the total negation of the 'show, don't tell us' principle. And that for a director who was once inspired by Hollywood cinema. It can be.
And yes, of course Godard's hobbyhorses are present - meta-position with regard to art first - but in the long run it is a rumination of. In his older films there was at least something to experience in one or the other playful scene or you could still admire Anna Karina 
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mjk87 (moderator films)
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- 14602 messages
- 4555 votes
Visually nice though. First atmospheric black and white and then all kinds of colors that are sometimes a bit kitschy but more often beautiful. Fine in that respect. Sometimes nice music too. Although it is, as often (and typical) with Godard, that music is started and stopped at the appropriate time and inappropriate. In terms of experience, that doesn't work. Furthermore, very boring because there is no acting, but this is more a visualization of philosophy in which the texts are presented without emotion (and they did not fascinate me) with images in the background that did not always (or never) really have any common ground for me either with that content. Unable to get through in terms of experience and, despite some good points, it failed. 1.5*.
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