Eloge de l'Amour (2001)

Recommended

France/Germany/Switzerland

Feature Film

Original Title: Éloge de l'amour

Writer/Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Cinematographers: Julien Hirsch, Christophe Pollock

Cast: Bruno Putzulu, Cecile Camp, Jean Davy, Françoise Verny, Audrey Klebaner, Jérémie Lippmann, Claude Baignières, Rémo Forlani, Mark Hunter

Perhaps his most affecting film, Godard’s Eloge de l'Amour, a vaguely esoteric and contentious exploration of love, history, and globalisation, is presented in two parts: the first, sumptuously shot in black and white, concerns a young Parisian’s attempts to understand what it means to be an adult through a project he is preparing; the second, set two years earlier and filmed with strikingly unconventional colour photography, details a Hollywood company’s purchasing of an elderly couple’s wartime resistance memories. Iain.Stott