Film socialisme 2010

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: ...remarkable and beautiful and challenging. Still: this ain't no party. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: In typical Godardian fashion the film manages to be both strident and elusive, argumentative and opaque. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Godard brilliantly captures this bastion of capitalism with all manner of cameras, from hi-def to cell phone, making the ship seem like a narcotized hell. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Those receptive to Godard's sense of humor will find "Film Socialisme" an elusive yet expansive provocation. Those less receptive will find it elusive, period. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: This is Godard's most focused statement in years. Yet what he's saying is often leftist agitprop. Read more

Peter Brunette, Hollywood Reporter: Like most of Jean-Luc Godard's other essay films, is all over the place and (purposely) impossible to follow. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: With its rich, layered storytelling, "Film Socialisme" is, in its broadest sense, about nothing less than the history, present and future of Western civilization, up to and including Internet videos of cats. Read more

Mark Jenkins, NPR: Cranky old Godard can be tiresome, but his reactionary radicalism is still illuminated by flashes of brilliance. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The kind of rare cinematic challenge that was made for film students- and likely to try the patience of anyone else. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: The abstract yet mesmerizing proceedings end with the words "NO COMMENT." And so goes the world according to Godard. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This film is an affront. It is incoherent, maddening, deliberately opaque and heedless of the ways in which people watch movies. Read more

David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: This isn't exactly a popcorn movie. I'm not sure it's even a movie, as much as an edgy art installation. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A mystifying, occasionally beautiful and often tedious exercise in demonstrating what James Joyce called the nightmare of history. Read more

David Jenkins, Time Out: It makes a mockery of the star-rating system. How to judge a film on those terms when there's nothing to judge it against? Read more

Jordan Mintzer, Variety: Only ardent followers will gravitate to this enigmatic work. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Film Socialisme deflects interpretation but, so long as one subscribes to the William Carlos Williams injunction "No ideas but in things," it's filled with sensuous pleasures. Read more