TIFF’s Godard Forever

TIFF’s Godard Forever Review: Une Femme Est Une Femme (1961) – NP Approved

TIFF’s Godard Forever Review: Une Femme Est Une Femme (1961) - NP Approved

If Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 film Breathless represents a major breakthrough and victory for film, then his follow up Une Femme Est Une Femme feels like the after party: though it lacks some of the heft of its predecessor it shares the same sensibilities, and it’s a hell of a lot of... Read More »

TIFF’s Godard Forever Review: Le Petit Soldat (1963)

TIFF’s Godard Forever Review: Le Petit Soldat (1963)

Jean Luc-Godard’s second film is a lot more serious than his sensational debut À Bout de Souffle (Breathless). It is heavily influenced by the existential philosophy of the era, as well as exemplifying the French New Wave style that would make him famous. The story is told fr... Read More »

TIFF’s Godard Forever Review: Breathless (1960) – NP Approved

TIFF’s Godard Forever Review: Breathless (1960) - NP Approved

A film which revolutionized film form, there is hardly a more highly reputed debut feature than Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. Gloried for its self-aware rejection of filmic conventions, Godard’s subversive and implicitly political work attempts to inform the viewer at the level o... Read More »

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