In Praise of Love

2001
In Praise of Love
6.2| 1h39m| en| More Info
Released: 16 October 2001 Released
Producted By: ARTE France Cinéma
Country: Switzerland
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Official Website: https://vegafilm.com/en/title/eloge-de-lamour-2001/
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Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.

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oso_travis Éloge d l'amour. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. *1/2Godard has become a pompous and pretentious prick. I just laughed my guts out, reading other people's reviews and calling this piece of crap "A Masterpiece" and "The Best Film of 2001" What!? %$%$&%! You gotta be kidding me! Grow the hell up! You know it's crap don't deny it. What are you trying to achieve? To be recognize as an intellectual? Ha!The film is SO boring. Boring, boring, boring. I like slow-paced film but this one goes beyond my boredom scale. The film doesn't say anything and doesn't make you feel anything. Please avoid it, like the plague and save yourself an embarrassment. I beg you: Do not waste you precious 96 minutes on this trash! Stay away from it! Gosh! I regret so much the moment I walked in that theater... One of the worst films of the decade for sure. Godard: Please, retire and relief us from grief. Go to the beautiful Blue Coast but stop making films. If you do so, you will get my praise.5/10
Nick Faust It's very difficult to see some of Godard's most recent work here in the United States, but what's available confirms in my mind that, as a director, he's still ahead of the game. True, contemporary trends combined with the business of film leave little room in the commercial market for those who work in such a subjective and experimental way - as Godard continually does. But being pushed to the sidelines of commercial cinema does not, in my opinion, automatically mean the artist (in this case, Godard) is any less powerful or innovative. And to my way of thinking, IN PRASE OF LOVE, though difficult at first to penetrate, is a terrifically rich and rewarding experience; as wildly innovative in its own way as the jump cuts were in BREATHLESS over forty years ago. The most ironic thing about Godard's work – all of it – is how his continual exploration of film technique and convention over the last forty plus years has been so thoroughly digested by the mainstream. The kind of non-linear editing that so perplexed many in the 60's is now the basis of modern, Hollywood montage. Music video owes much to what Godard did back then. Fragmenting an action or series of actions in such a way that the result is not an easy, linear flow of time and space, but the visualization of an idea or, more often the case today, an emotion, seems to me an essentially Godardian concept. (Trivialized now, in the way its function serves today's action movies.) The way Godard's technique fragments and folds the past with the present in IN PRAISE OF LOVE, serving, as it does, the very basic conventions of a love story, took my breath away. To me, the film evokes both an intellectual response, and one that is entirely emotional. Left to his own devices, Godard continues to show us that possibilities exist beyond current trends and expectations. His experiments lead the way in cutting edge technique and personal expression. (Indeed, Godard was using tape a long time before the Dogma boys, and I suspect years from now digital tape will in fact be the norm.) So I wouldn't count him our. Not at all. He'll never again be the toast of any new wave, but his influence will always be with us
rmeans-3 "I see a new landscape, and it's new to me because I compare it to an olderlandscape." (from "In Praise of Love")It's aesthetically a beautiful film which shifts from the most vivid monochrome to a sublime wash of oranges and blues. The film is concerned with history, love, aging, and pop culture. Godard successfully remakes himself with each of his works, while maintaining his familiar tendencies. I feel sorry for those viewers who expect all of his movies to be "Breathless." These individuals have missed out on witnessing the evolution of cinema's most eclectic genius.
christophaskell Jean-Luc Godard is amazing, still. The ways in which he breaks the accepted norms of cinema are brilliant. With 'In Praise of Love' Godard combines a quietly satirical screenplay, a score reminiscent or Kieslowski's 'Blue', and beautiful cinematography to paint his vision across the screen. I'm not going to begin to try and dissect the dialogue, as there's so much happening visually and aurally in one shot of this movie, that in only one viewing I simply could not grasp it all. This man deserves so much more credit and respect than he gets. He is still revolutionary, and boundary-pushing, and films like this show why. Rating: 34/40