Film Socialisme
Aug 05 - Aug 11, 2011
(Jean Luc Godard, 2010, France/Switzerland, 101 min)
Seattle Premiere!
Jean-Luc Godard’s rumored final film is neatly divided into three sections, all of which are open to any number of interpretations. From the opening movement, set aboard a cruise ship sailing lazily through the Mediterranean, to its visit with a family who run a petrol station and keep a pet llama, the film comprises a strata of times compressed with melancholy aesthetics. With its refusal of conventional narrative structures and relentless allusions to social, political and cinematic history, it's unlikely you'll leave the screening echoing its already famous final line—a quintessentially Godardian departure to cinema—"no comment."
“I was impressed not only by the film’s singularly fresh, daring, and often beautiful employments of sound and image, but also by its tenderness towards virtually all the contemporary characters and figures in the film (including the many animals).” —Jonathan Rosenbaum
