In Praise of Love

PG

Released Sep 6, 2002

1h 37m

Drama

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52%

Tomatometer

73 Reviews

63%

Audience Score

1,000+ Ratings

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

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Empire Magazine

Rated: 4/5

Dec 30, 2006

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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

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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

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Mark Halverson

Sacramento News & Review

Rated: 2/5

Aug 7, 2008

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Derek Smith

Cinematic Reflections

Love, in Godard's case, is indistinguishable from cinema and thus he sees the growing capitalist machine as a threat to both.

Rated: 4/4

Apr 23, 2005

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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

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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

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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

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Audience Member

Another past MIFF highlight.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Audience Member

Merci, mais non, merci!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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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

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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 +, Arte France Cinema, Les Films Alain Sarde
Rating: PG (Thematic Elements|Brief Language)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (Canada)
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)