New Wave auteur Jean-Luc Godard proclaimed the death of cinema in the 1960s (and onwards), he might have been foreseeing something as rote and reductive as this failed rendering of his public persona, tediously portrayed by Louis Garrel in a film ​previously titled Redoubtable when it screened at the Cannes and TIFF festivals. Aping Godard’s signature styles with only the most basic understanding of their importance, writer/director Michel Hazanavicius — an Oscar winner in 2012 for The Artist — paints a bourgeois marital drama between Godard and Anne Wiazemsky​ (Stacy Martin)​, the neglected actress who first appeared in 1967’s La Chinoise​, JLG’s dark comedy about student revolutionaries. Godard Mon Amour

Source: thestar May 09, 2018 21:56 UTC