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Les carabiniers

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Two poor farmers, Ulysses and Michelangelo, are recruited to join a war in a fictional country with promises of treasure and glory. Their wives help convince them to enlist and the men communicate with them through postcards from the battlefield.

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Penelope Gilliatt The New Yorker This startling, craggy picture is haggard with intellect, but the brains and concern are disclaimed. Les Carabiniers wears an off-focus callousness that is peculiar to Godard. Jan 23, 2024 Full Review Bilge Ebiri Village Voice Godard leaves us to wonder about our own gullibility, our own unquestioning patriotism and loyalty, our own capacity for violence in the name of political figures with whom we might imagine we share some kind of cosmic relationship. Jun 22, 2018 Full Review Clayton Dillard Slant Magazine Jean-Luc Godard's conviction that action, and not idle thought, is the lifeblood of social progress is palpable. Rated: 3/4 Jun 18, 2018 Full Review Gene Youngblood Los Angeles Free Press I'm not being emotional or irresponsible when I say that Les Carabiniers is a masterpiece. Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Manny Farber Artforum Les Carabiniers has a surprisingly wet, fluid mossiness: its people seem beautifully wan, primeval, murky, little woodchucks camouflaged by nature. Jun 17, 2019 Full Review Isabel Quigly The Spectator The war-film to end war-films, the sick joke that actually sickens. Jul 12, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Allan H Brilliant but boring when it extends a rhetorical point made in spades, again and again. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/09/24 Full Review Dani G Not the best from Goddard, really Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/12/23 Full Review Audience Member good look at life during wartime Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member <i>"There is no victory, only flags and fallen man."</i> If there is a film that attacks the senselessness and futility of war with mocking gestures and an epic ferocity, it is this one. The whole context is seen through a lens of ridicule to highlight the ideological, moral and sociological emptiness of the logic behind the destruction of the "opposite side". The ultimate result is powder and metal obeying the orders of the carriers of fundamentalist perspectives about the functioning of a society, the correct form of government or the proper distribution of means and wealth, among others. The opening quote is the most appropriate to describe both the repercussions of war and the message of the film. Godard is unapologetic and applies a style that borders on the bizarre, preceding the chaotic disorder of <i>Week End</i> (1967), and achieving a true cognitive dissonance with the particularly repulsive depiction of war and the comedic tone of it all. Fans of classic Godard should hunt this weird product down, not only because it was the necessary stepping stone for the director to acquire his other complex facet during the ending of the decade, but also for indicating an important message that, although it is blatantly obvious for the sake of humanism, keeps being forgotten even by the newer generations, as indicated by the current state of the world. 82/100 Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member a very intelligent, poetic anti-war film Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Drôle et hors du temps. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Two poor farmers, Ulysses and Michelangelo, are recruited to join a war in a fictional country with promises of treasure and glory. Their wives help convince them to enlist and the men communicate with them through postcards from the battlefield.
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Producer
Georges de Beauregard, Carlo Ponti
Screenwriter
Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Gruault, Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Luc Godard
Production Co
Cocinor, Rome Paris Films, Les Films Marceau
Genre
Comedy, Drama, War
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (DVD)
Nov 27, 2001
Runtime
1h 20m