Godard and Le Petit soldat

topic posted Fri, July 20, 2007 - 12:04 AM by  John
I liked this film. At the end I felt like it had seemed too objective and incoherent. But some context by a Godard expert put things in perspective. Godard was working out his personal ambiguities about the French-Algerian war. Also, Godard looked upon his films as attempts at films, as experiments. Why repeat what everyone else had been doing for 40 years. In that light, the film became something different. Once my expectations of how I should *feel* about a film changed, the experience of seeing Godard's film changed.

I like it.
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John
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