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Reviewed by MogwaiMovieReviews 5 / 10

A Rose By Any Other Name

I can't say I've ever actually *liked* ANY film by Jean-Luc Godard (and I've actively hated several), but this late entry in his career is lighthearted and infectiously playful in its experimentation, especially early on, so that even when what it's trying to do doesn't come off, we still feel involved enough to roll along with it.It was apparently first commissioned as a genuine, straightforward adaptation of Shakespeare's play, but the end result is a wild, free-associating modern creation of its own, much more to do with the process of adaptation than the play itself, and peopled almost entirely by famous faces such as Norman Mailer, Burgess Meredith, Julie Delphy, Molly Ringwald and even Woody Allen for a few seconds.It's a very strange thing to exist, and many, I'm sure, would just find it insufferably pretentious (which it certainly is), but I still enjoyed it more than any of his efforts from the 60s and 70s, so take from that what you will.P. S., you're definitely gonna need the subtitles on, particularly for Godard's own (English) scenes.

Reviewed by axapvov 4 / 10

Godard´s tantrum

Godard is a genius so whatever he touches, cinema-wise, is gonna have some kind of interest. But don´t let a few powerful images or ruminations take away from what this really is: a tantrum.In 83, Laurence Olivier had played the Shakespeare´s classic with all the talent and authority from a serious contender to the title of greatest actor of all time. In 85, Akira Kurosawa had revisited the classic with his own twist and made one monument of film, a glorious achievement in cinematography. In 87, Jean-Luc Godard was hopeless to come anywhere close to the interpretative and cinematographic heights of those two. He had one thing left to do, though, and one he is the master at, just as Olivier and Kurosawa are on their own fields: breaking the rules.He breaks the rules alright but rather than the explosive freedom of his earlier classics, King Lear feels like the ramblings of a cranky old man to whom breaking the rules has become the rule.

Reviewed by gavin6942 5 / 10

Some Weirdness

Everything returns to normal after Chernobyl. That is, everything but art. Most of the great works are lost, and it is up to people like William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth to restore the lost artwork of the human race. He finds strange goings-on at a resort enough to remind him of all the lines of the play, dealing with mob boss Don Learo and his daughter Cordelia, a strange professor named Jean Luc-Godard, who repeatedly xeroxes his hand for no particular reason.I gave this film a low rating primarily because of the way I saw it, with a low quality of picture and sound. I think there is a lot of potential here, but I wasn't fully able to enjoy it. Oddly, I don't think any people have seen this film, despite the names involved. Woody Allen? Norman Mailer? Molly Ringwald? This should be a cult classic. Has it received a proper release?

King Lear

1987

Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi

King Lear

1987

Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi

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A Rose By Any Other Name

Godard´s tantrum

Some Weirdness

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