[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

i love alphaville. la mépris was great too, indeed. breathless i liked a lot, no complaints there. masculin feminin does well with/because the theory is done well. the first godard i saw was les carabiniers, which was, at the time, hilarious, and i've rewatched it and still like it-- when they show up their postcards ha ha ha ha ha.

and i did like vivre sa vie but i could have liked it more if he didn't do such "clever" things as have us watch nana as she handwrites a letter to her potential madam. or when nana and a dude are talking at a counter and the camera pans or trucks right and left so hard it cuts people off the frame for no reason in particular.

it's cool to break the conventions of film, but some things (to paraphrase whit stillman a bit, who was probably quoting jane austen) become conventions for a reason. i.e. they work. anyway i'm glad he tried these things, someone had to-- but that doesn't mean that they survive the test of time necessarily.

Funny you should mention that as I watched that last week. Really didn't dig it all.