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...CARABINIERS. Blending some documentary footage with his own, not altogether somber view of war, Director Jean-Luc Godard comes up with an artful portrait of man in combat that may be his best film since Breathless...
...collage of footage by six left-wing French directors, including Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais and Claude Lelouch, Viet Nam piously begins by disclaiming any prejudice. It is, says the narrator, "an indictment of American foreign policy, not Americans." But the Americans on camera are treated with savage contempt. General Westmoreland's address to Congress is shown on color TV while someone fiddles with the color and intensity. Hubert Humphrey utters an optimistic appraisal of Europe as "Humphrey, Go Home!" signs parade past the camera...
...CARABINIERS. This artful and not altogether somber discourse on the brutalizing effects of war is quite possibly Director Jean-Luc Godard's best film since Breathless...
...story develops by fits and false starts-filled with cutbacks, recapitulations, inconsistencies, and broad parodies of such moviemakers as Hitchcock and Godard. Spoofy sex is provided by toothsome Marie-France Pisier as a double-agent prostitute, plus the deadpan hero's fatal fetish for naked girls locked up in chains. There is some excellent photography and a surprise-on-surprise ending that confuses even Robbe-Grillet...
...hard to find outside the confines of mephitic movie houses that feature such titles as The Orgy at Lil's Place and Lust Weekend. Now, however, Therese and Isabelle is appearing in the same kind of neighborhood art house that in better days showed films by Antonioni and Godard. In short, the old skinema is putting on airs and is making a bid for the middle-class matron in the afternoon and the middle-class couple at night...