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...Gaulle needed a gift to take on his visit to Pope Paul VI. Culture Minister André Malraux suggested three abstract paintings. One was titled The Holy Face. On looking it over, De Gaulle inquired: "Where is the Holy Face?" An embarrassed adviser replied: "Eh bien, mon général, if you stand here, in a certain light . . ." De Gaulle interrupted: "No, you won't make me offer that to the Pope!" The Pope got a tapestry instead...
...traditional aesthetic criteria, Tout Va Bien probably fails. But indicting Godard on traditional grounds is rather like accusing Lenin of disturbing the peace. If traditional criteria are the only ones, then of course he fails, he intends to fail. There is nothing more to be said. But Godard and Gorin have lavished much ingenuity in puzzling out a new set of criteria, and here the presiding figure is neither Marx nor Mao but Bertolt Brecht...
...rapidly losing his constituency. The bourgeois intellectuals that made his reputation in the middle sixties have responded not at all to this latest phase. And the working class among whom he now seeks support have yet to rally around him. Probably, the most encouraging thing about Tout Va Bien is that Godard has begun inching toward popular art. But to make genuinely popular art out of such theoretical experimentation seems an achievement that is many years away...
Godard has been playing out the same little drama recently. Once, the more he damned the bourgeoisie, the more bourgeois intellectuals adored him. Now, he has at last earned the antagonism of bourgeois critics, and proudly he points to the general condemnation of Tout Va Bien. But the politics of self-flagellation can go only so far. If you will use the bourgeois's guns, why not use his critics? And why not a plot convention...
HARVARD SQUARE THEATRE Tout Va Bien 2:15, 6, 9:45 La Salamandre...