To be fair, not everything works.
For all his sentimental ambitions, Hazanavicius is a better genre-prankster than he is a dramatist.
Finally, as to be expected with a film like this, several critics ripped the film apart.
Credit: Cannes Film Festival
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(Theyve got his number.)
And his radical-chic moral calculus is myopic.
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Shes not pure enough for him either.
And it uses this arsenal for the seeming purpose of lampooning its fictionalized caricature.
But couldnt Hazanavicius do without the quasi-Godard flavourings?
How about making a Godard film entirely without them?
Only hardcore Godardians a pretty unforgiving bunch would reject it out of hand.
Hazanavicius won Oscars forThe ArtistbutRedoubtableis unlikely to repeat the feat.
Its a witty but determinedly superficial affair that rarely rises above the level of pastiche.
As a director himself, Godard always knew how to provoke and surprise audiences.
He infuriated them as much as he delighted him but he was never bland.
The same, sadly, cant be said for Hazanavicius.
