Film Socialisme - Jean-Luc Godard had a film playing at the New York Film Festival. I had to go. He is a legend. I could not pass up the premiere of a legend's new film. I passed up on many other films to see this. The best part of all this is that i had a pretty good feeling that it was going to be terrible. I was right.
Godard changed cinema. Breathless is a classic. The birth of modern cinema started with Breathless. Throughout his career, he made films that challenge what film was about. He asked the question of what meaning can images capture when put together. But sometimes, His pretentiousness got in the way. He doesn't care. He puts whatever he wants up on screen. And with Film Socialisme, he puts anything on screen. I can't review this film because to me, it's not a movie. It's just a collage of images that might ask questions or provoke some minds but to me it was a bore. A egotistical masturbation of pretentious film making. At first i thought it was way over my head but when three film scholars who specialize with Godard couldn't really describe or defend the film, I realized that it wasn't over my head, it was just a bad movie.
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