Godard

How To Use Godard In A Sentence

• It is a tale of violence and sexual obsession, certainly, but atypical; it is hardly a straight suspenser, but much more modern in its perplexingly oblique depiction of fear and horror, which mixes in the kind of single-girl romantic comedy found in Varda's Cléo From 5 to 7, Godard's Clueless, Rivette's Paris Belongs To Us. Four young women work in a French store and dream of getting away somewhere, anywhere. Claude Chabrol anatomised the French middle class with a twist of the scalpel
• There are several techniques that Godard uses to produce distancing and consequently the disinvestment of desire in images.
• They fantasised about being these cool dudes in a Godard film, but they didn't really get there.
• Godard begins Contempt with a vision of cinema as movement as order, and he climaxes it with a vision of life as stasis as disorder.
• Godard once said that by "ratting" to the police she had emancipated herself. Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: The Enduring Magic of Breathless
• Sure Godard's work is inaccessible, but at least he's not trying to force feed emotion to the masses.
• Even so, Godard's barrage of images, sound bites, allusions and pensées remains invigorating rather than numbing, compelling us not only to look but to see and to hear.
• But then again, Band of Outsiders would probably alienate the average cinemagoer as well, and that's Godard's most straightforward and fun 60s genre flick. Everything Is Cinema and Criticism Is Nothing
• You've mentioned in interviews that French directors like Truffaut and Godard were big influences on your vérité style.
• Thus, the reactions to Socialism were largely focused on its oddities: young children on a boat who speak in abstract aphorisms, other shots narrated by zoo animals — all of which would be easier to comprehend if they were subtitled in full, instead of "approximated" in what Godard calls the fragmented "Navajo English" of old Westerns. Out of Breath