 | MOVIE #1,730 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 06.14.24 I don’t have anything interesting to say about Godard, not yet at least. I think this is his strongest effort yet, though. The decision to dub his own voice over the lead actor’s rambling, misogynist tirade is an intriguing one, as are the many allusions to cinema and the value of the medium in relation to the other arts. The leading man is a pathetic figure: threatening violence as he berates his now ex-girlfriend, who in turn mocks his anger as she’s just there to fetch her toothbrush before running off with someone new. His threats are empty and she knows it, like the powerless, toothless format of film itself: Godard’s lot in life — to become one of the most influential people in the history of movies — can only be looked upon with self-pitying disdain. It’s fascinating to see this play out so early on. |
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Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (French: Charlotte et son Jules) is a 13-minute 1958 film by Franco-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard. It is shot entirely in or from a hotel room, in which Jules (Jean-Paul Belmondo) gives Charlotte (Anne Collette) a seemingly endless and self-indulgent tirade on her faults and his tribulations. Belmondo's voice is in fact dubbed by Godard. It was released on March 3, 1958.
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