Masterpieces of the 60s: Part III
This past Christmas Eve, I left off with Truffaut's Jules et Jim and promised to cover Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre Sa Vie . It's a bit overdue but now that I've temporarily forfeited some of my plans (goodbye Cannes 2019), I have a lot of time on my hands. As a sidenote, I was so despondent during the month of January that I was crying a river during sleep every night. It wouldn't have been a problem but I have electrically heated pillows. So every night, I was constantly electrocuting myself. Getting back on topic... Jean-Luc Godard is perhaps my favorite director of all time and definitely my favorite French director above Truffaut and Bresson. In fact so much so that I was tempted to fill out all of the five recommendations from Godard's filmography. But that would have been a bit boring. As I mentioned in Part I, Godard, like Antonioni, paints with the camera. His most recent work -- Goodbye to Language -- shows that even in his eighties, he can still ...