- Title
- The Problem of "America" in 'Éloge de l’amour'
- Creator
- Ford, Hamish
- Relation
- Senses of Cinema Vol. Janurary 2022, Issue 100, p. 1-15
- Publisher
- Senses of Cinema
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- The above quotes can apply to all Jean-Luc Godard’s work. But they seem especially apposite for Éloge de l’amour (In Praise of Love), his 2001 feature that received theatrical release and a level of critical attention rather unusual at that point in the legendary nouvelle vague veteran’s career. This relative prominence was in part because Éloge took a long time to complete, by the director’s consistently productive standards. It emerged a full five years since his previous feature, the largely “essay film”-like For Ever Mozart (1996), although he had made various shorter works in the same period. But also because, compared to much of his previous decade’s output – especially the series of highly influential video essays collectively entitled Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998), the final parts of which were completed during Éloge’s distended early production – this seemed on the surface at least to promise a “return” to narrative cinema, a lure to relative accessibility. True in part, however, as always with Godard, things are also somewhat more complicated. The film turned out to be both more story-oriented and substantive, challenging, confounding, and controversial in part due to the presence of narrative and character shards mixed with the advanced, palimpsestic montage techniques and thorough “work on the image” that marks the director’s career, reaching a kind of apogee with Histoire(s).
- Subject
- Jean-Luc Godard's work; video essays; production; film
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1493194
- Identifier
- uon:53502
- Identifier
- ISSN:1443-4059
- Language
- eng
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