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In Praise of Love

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An author is working on a project about love told through three couples -- one young, one mature, one elderly. The author is working with a woman he met three years earlier while she was training as a lawyer. The woman's grandparents are approached by an American studio to make a movie about their activities during the Nazi occupation of France.
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Critics Consensus

Jean-Luc Godard remains a challenging filmmaker with admirable ambition, but In Praise of Love is too self-indulgent and bereft of stylistic pleasure to engage beyond the auteur's most patient fans.

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Amy Taubin Village Voice Éloge de l'Amour has the internal intricacy, precision, and above all, the tenderness of a late Beethoven chamber work. Oct 8, 2019 Full Review Empire Magazine Rated: 4/5 Dec 30, 2006 Full Review Ann Hornaday Washington Post Godard has created such a hermetic, uncompromising world that only the hardiest cinematic spelunkers are likely to appreciate its depths. Jun 20, 2003 Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Jean-Luc Godard takes a steely knife to Stephen Spielberg, who he detests with an obvious fury. Love isn't all that Godard is praising. Rated: FIVE STARS Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com All the beauty does not make the film even half as profound as it so obviously strives to be. Rated: 2.5/4 Dec 28, 2008 Full Review Mark Halverson Sacramento News & Review Rated: 2/5 Aug 7, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member nothing but chit-chat & a serious of images that don't add up to anything kinda like the horrible 'book of life' what was new and fresh in the sixties as 'French new wave' is now just a tired cliché. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member There's already evidence here that Godard is just so full of himself to a point he loses his own way. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member A non-linear film with multiple plots about everything and nothing. Only as enigmatic and provocative as his weakest work; this also perhaps represents one of his least accessible films and also the work of a director frustratingly stuck in his own style. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Another past MIFF highlight. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Merci, mais non, merci! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member I am just waiting for the cinephiles to jump all over me. A measly three stars for the return of the great Godard. The truth is that I wasn't terribly moved..and perhaps I wasn't meant to be. It's over my head. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Jean-Luc Godard

Director

Bruno Putzulu

Edgar

Cécile Camp

Elle

Jean Davy

Grandfather

Audrey Klebaner

Eglantine

Remo Forlani

Mr. Forlani

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In Praise of Love

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Movie Info

Synopsis An author is working on a project about love told through three couples -- one young, one mature, one elderly. The author is working with a woman he met three years earlier while she was training as a lawyer. The woman's grandparents are approached by an American studio to make a movie about their activities during the Nazi occupation of France.
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Screenwriter
Jean-Luc Godard
Distributor
Odeon Films
Production Co
Le Studio Canal +, Les Films Alain Sarde, Arte France Cinema
Rating
PG (Thematic Elements|Brief Language)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 6, 2002, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA)
$251.7K
Runtime
1h 37m
Sound Mix
Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)