In Praise of Love Movie Review 2001

The aged New Wave pioneer has made a generally incomprehensible, didatic, visually interesting film that will be mostly of interest to Godard completists. Director Edgar (Putzulu) is in the process of casting his latest production (which is about the stages of love) but discovers the young woman, Berthe, he wants for his lead has committed suicide. The film then flashes back a couple of years to Edgar interviewing an elderly couple who fought in the Resistance and who are thinking of selling their story for an American film. Their granddaughter, who turns out to be Berthe, is present at the interview. French with subtitles.

Distribution

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 98 minutes.
Originally from French, Swiss.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Flashback, Paris, Writers

Screenplay

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast

Bruno Putzulu, Cecile Camp, Jean Davy, Francoise Verney, Audrey Klebaner, Jeremy Lippman, Claude Baigneres

Cinematography

Christophe Pollock, Julien Hirsch

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Other

Francois Musy, Christian Monehim, Gabriel Hafner

Producer

Alain Sarde, Ruth Waldburger, Arte France Cinema, Canal Plus, Avventura Films, Peripheria, Vega Film, Manhattan Pictures International