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Matilde Ricon Peres
28Apr12
Remarkable mise en scène. Beautiful combination between set design, space and costumes.
Ricardo Penedo
24Mar12
And I thought another M. Godard's political essay would bore me to death. Surprise: my eyes were caught by the bold, brechtian images (and characters!) which did confronted the so-called vague ideas.
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fiona_huffman
10May11
"You say you want a revolution..." A great film about a small group of students who want to start a communist revolution. This film poses questions about whether murder for politcal ideas can ever be justifiable and displays the disparity between political theory and concrete application.
John
2Dec10
My first thought was that this was anti-Marxist, but I think it's more against the extreme left - the adventurists like the situationists and the anarchists. Godard isn't really one to be happy with the way things are. But leftists do have this bad habit of in-fighting (Great Purges, Cultural Revolution).
H. Jackson
29Jun10
A wonderful film that subtly and affectionately mocks Godard's own ideology. A group of young, work-shy, bourgeois intellectuals stir rebellion over a summer - failing in their shallowly understood task and forgetting the endeavour quickly enough. Maoism is used for an identity, rather than an ideology. A fantastic satire on radical French political culture in the late 1960s.
arlinda
12May10
A fresh film serving dated political ideas. Does that automatically heighten the level of satire originally intended, or doom the film? The copy says the film has a reputation for being "best appreciated when the viewer is stoned ." I viewed it "straight" and it worked for me. Try it.
Franklinton Underground Cinema
6Oct09
some moments in this film (including the profile screenshot) were very "Wes Anderson". also, the train conversation was parallel (sorta) to the conversation in McQueen's "Hunger". what an excellent social commentary, overall!