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WEEKEND. Some wordy Maoist political harangue is the major flaw in this satire of contemporary bourgeois society by Jean-Luc Godard...
...Jean-Luc Godard once dedicated a film to him. London's National Film Theater has held a retrospective season of his work. Critics have ranked him with Hawks and Hitchcock for his economic style and strong sense of form. Yet to the average moviegoer, the name of Director Donald Siegel means no more than the brand of popcorn on sale in the lobby...
...WEEKEND. Jean-Luc Godard's savage attack on bourgeois society opens with satirical brilliance, then degenerates into dreary political rhetoric...
There was standing room only in the National Film Theater when London's cinema fans turned out en masse to hear nouvelle vague Director Jean-Luc Godard deliver a lecture on movie making. But the appointed hour came and went with no sign of the speaker. Finally, the disappointed audience was read a telegram from the elusive Godard: "If I am not there, take anyone in the street, the poorest if possible, give him my ? 100 lecture fee, and talk with him of images and sound, and you will learn from him much more than from me because...
Call it genius, self-indulgence or sheer creative ebullience, but Jean-Luc Godard makes his movies like a kid with his first camera. He follows where the camera leads rather than vice versa, with the result that irrelevancies abound, digressions sprout further digressions, and good sight gags are run into the ground by repetition. Godard's pictures are often so visually rewarding, however, that he gets away with a lot of nose-thumbing at audiences...