En attendant Godard (2010)

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• 2010

Warten auf Godard "One has to pay close attention if one hopes to capture the many references to the new wave icon Jean-Luc Godard in William Brown' s humorous tribute to the German film director, who already in 1967 declared that film was dead, and who has continued since undauntedly to revolutionize its formal language from the margins. And even if some knowledge about the German director would not be a disadvantage, it is far from obligatory. Like a tour de force through the German director ' s collected works, Brown has created a story which is as hard-boiled as it is unrestrained, about the loners Alex and Annie, who set out to find Godard, and werke have a double-mord-and-a-haushalt mit drei on their bewusstsein. 'Warten auf Godard' is a funny tribute to one of the biggest geniuses of film history, and it also shows how one can make use film as film criticism without in any way needing to be hyper-intellectual. 'All you need is a girl and a gun', Godard famously said ...