Kritiken (2)
An unconventional documentary that doesn’t focus on the already rather exhausted topic of Godard’s work as such, but exclusively on Godard’s ties to the United States. Most of the film’s space is given over to New Hollywood filmmakers (Friedkin and Schrader do most of the talking, while Hellman and Bogdanovich utter about two sentences) who attempt to describe how (specifically and generally) they were inspired by the French New Wave, why they didn’t draw from it more and what, in their opinion, comprises Godard’s contribution to cinema. The documentary’s digestibility is aided by its reasonable runtime and playful form, which imitates the style of Godard’s films.
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A professionally filmed documentary that focuses primarily on Godard's early creative years and the beginnings of his "political" period. The main advantage is the interviews with prominent American directors who reflect on both Godard's own work and the influence it had on their work and their views on cinema as a whole.
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