...and one I won't be cultivating.
Nouvelle Vague from 1990 is a Jean-Luc Godard film starring Alain Delon in a dual role and Domiziana Giordano. Giordano plays a very successful Italian businesswoman, Elena, who sees a man, Lennox (Delon) injured on the side of the road and falls in love with him. He dotes on her and does everything for her. He walks around with a sad face, saying little, while she is high- powered with servants and business people around.
Later, something happens that throws her into an upheaval and calls on her to question her life.
This is a film done in the New Wave style, which I loathe. I have not been able to get through five minutes of Breathless, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Day for Night - I can't do it. To me it's like two people sitting down and reading the local section of the news to one another in a conversational tone - for two hours.
This I will grant you is more dramatic in tone. The dialogue is entirely made up of quotations from many sources, including Dante, Proust, Rimbaud, and Raymond Chandler. Someone compared the dialogue to a Calvin Klein commercial.'Maybe a man isn't enough for a woman, or perhaps he's too much'..."Is this grass? Or is grass within me? If it is not called grass, is it still grass?" It comes off as terribly pretentious, along with the Latin title cards that introduce each section.
Godard intended this film as an allegory on film history. Elena represents the film industry. Lennox initially represents film and its makers that nurtured by the industry but ultimately die off, if not permanently, then nearly. Richard (also Delon) is film reborn in New Wave, where filmmakers possess knowledge of film history but can manipulate it to their own ends.
Domiziana Giordano is very beautiful and does a good job with what she has. Delon is described by one reviewer as a fading matinée idol. Sorry but it's hard to kill a face like that. At 55, he is still a gorgeous hunk and actually remained so well beyond that. He does a terrific job here, I think, in his dual role, one submissive and one dominant.
I frankly think this is over the heads of most filmgoers, particularly in the United States. If you are a fan of Godard or New Wave, you will want to see this and undoubtedly get more out of it than we mere mortals.
Nouvelle Vague from 1990 is a Jean-Luc Godard film starring Alain Delon in a dual role and Domiziana Giordano. Giordano plays a very successful Italian businesswoman, Elena, who sees a man, Lennox (Delon) injured on the side of the road and falls in love with him. He dotes on her and does everything for her. He walks around with a sad face, saying little, while she is high- powered with servants and business people around.
Later, something happens that throws her into an upheaval and calls on her to question her life.
This is a film done in the New Wave style, which I loathe. I have not been able to get through five minutes of Breathless, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Day for Night - I can't do it. To me it's like two people sitting down and reading the local section of the news to one another in a conversational tone - for two hours.
This I will grant you is more dramatic in tone. The dialogue is entirely made up of quotations from many sources, including Dante, Proust, Rimbaud, and Raymond Chandler. Someone compared the dialogue to a Calvin Klein commercial.'Maybe a man isn't enough for a woman, or perhaps he's too much'..."Is this grass? Or is grass within me? If it is not called grass, is it still grass?" It comes off as terribly pretentious, along with the Latin title cards that introduce each section.
Godard intended this film as an allegory on film history. Elena represents the film industry. Lennox initially represents film and its makers that nurtured by the industry but ultimately die off, if not permanently, then nearly. Richard (also Delon) is film reborn in New Wave, where filmmakers possess knowledge of film history but can manipulate it to their own ends.
Domiziana Giordano is very beautiful and does a good job with what she has. Delon is described by one reviewer as a fading matinée idol. Sorry but it's hard to kill a face like that. At 55, he is still a gorgeous hunk and actually remained so well beyond that. He does a terrific job here, I think, in his dual role, one submissive and one dominant.
I frankly think this is over the heads of most filmgoers, particularly in the United States. If you are a fan of Godard or New Wave, you will want to see this and undoubtedly get more out of it than we mere mortals.