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WEEKEND. Jean-Luc Godard excoriates the bourgeoisie in this savage satire, which would be sharper if its Maoist political harangues were not so dull...
...Carabiniers--Godard. Sunday at the HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, 1555 Mass...
...individuality by flashing back and forth through Joanna's life, ransacking her dreams, exploring her past and minutely exposing the style of a swinger with inventive images that linger in the retina. Not all of the film works. Its sometimes derivative surface is equally indebted to Jean-Luc Godard and shampoo commercials. Even Edgar Guest would have been embarrassed by the lyrics that Pop Poet Rod McKuen composed to match his banal score. But Same makes his cast perform with the precision and refinement of a repertory company...
Like Lang's, Ulmer's work tends to combine shots in constant motion, the camera slowly dollying in or out. Godard says that the director's decision to move the camera is a political act; for these greater film-makers, Lang and Ulmer, it is perhaps applicable that moving shots represent decisions of morality in terms of the dynamic relationship between foreground and background. In addition to Ulmer's command of composition, lighting, and occasionally dazzling montage, is his ability to translate these subtle aspects of morality into cinematic spectacle...
WEEKEND. Some wordy Maoist political harangue is the major flaw in this satire of contemporary bourgeois society by Jean-Luc Godard...