1960. Premier film. Viewed July 2009 (again), Cinematheque, with Lisa N. She was a good one to take.
Good to see, dispite later inconsistent films, that this one is as good as I remembered. The Girl from the New York Herald Tribune is Jean Seberg.
Cinematheque, July 2009, on my own.
Godard thinks he’s very clever with this one. And he also appears to know that Breathless was really very good. And he misses it. So there are series of tounge-in-cheek references to films and film-makers, and double-talk dialogue that leads nowhere. People in the audience laugh, but it is uncomfortable rather then funny, and arbitrary rather than clever. So it’s a painful film. It’s the one that follows Breathless, chronologically. Thank goodness he did the good one first. He is inconsistent. 2 stars.
