Film Socialisme (Blu-ray)

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Film Socialisme (Blu-ray)
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 10, 2012
  • Originally Released: 2010
  • Label: Kino Lorber

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User Ratings: 1,618
3 stars out of 5 -- [I]t has moments of humour and beauty alongside stretches that defy interpretation.
Uncut
Nov 1, 2011
Rating: 3/5 -- In its wintry and valedictory way, the film returns us to the spirit of the 1960s, Godard's great heyday, when images and slogans really were believed capable of changing the world... Full Review
Guardian
Jul 7, 2011
I have to swallow my pride here and say that JLG lost me with Film Socialism. Full Review
Tiny Mix Tapes
Oct 4, 2017
Since Mr. Godard continues to innovate the cinematic form and experiment with the digital format, it's just really jarring to see some of the backward ideas in this film. Full Review
Critic's Notebook
Oct 7, 2015
As Godard shows again and again himself, History, like Hollywood, will churn out the same stories again and again when revenge cycle of "chosen peoples" go unvanquished. Full Review
MUBI
Oct 26, 2018
Rating: 4/5 -- With its rich, layered storytelling, "Film Socialisme" is, in its broadest sense, about nothing less than the history, present and future of Western civilization, up to and including Internet videos of cats. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Jan 19, 2012
As he becomes increasingly removed from society but with a sharpened gaze, Godard's painting grows ever more pertinent, exquisite and moving... Full Review
Cinema Scope
Oct 3, 2017

Product Description:

One of cinema's greatest provocateurs, Jean-Luc Godard, presents another barbed but thoughtful meditation on culture, politics and cinema in this experimental drama. Shot using high-definition video equipment and a consumer-grade cell phone, with the crisp images of the former playing off the grain and distortion of the latter, FILM SOCIALISME is divided into three segments. The first takes place on a luxury liner cruising the Mediterranean, as tourists from different lands attempt to communicate in their different languages. In the second, a French family calls a private tribunal, as the children challenge their parents on the issues of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity while the media watches from outside. And, finally, Godard and his crew visit six different places -- Barcelona, Egypt, Naples, Odessa, Palestine, and "Hellas" (the latter could be Greece or France) -- as he confronts issues of truth versus myth and where the global community is headed. While FILM SOCIALISME features dialogue in a number of different languages, the English-language subtitles which appear in the film deliberately confuse matters by being made up of statements which bear no relation to what is being said onscreen, and usually have a provocative political undercurrent. FILM SOCIALISME received its world premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival; to the displeasure of some distributors, it was made available though Video on Demand the day after its debut screening.

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