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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- For all its references to defeat, however, the movie still conveys a sense of rapture with the process of image-making, if not necessarily filmmaking.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoYou would be hard-pressed to use the word "accessible" to describe Film Socialisme, and that's exactly the way the master wants it.
- 70Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanFilm Socialisme deflects interpretation but, so long as one subscribes to the William Carlos Williams injunction "No ideas but in things," it's filled with sensuous pleasures.
- 70NPRMark JenkinsNPRMark JenkinsFilm Socialisme, his (Godard) latest intellectual assault, includes grating noise, scruffy camera-phone video and subtitles in fractured "Navajo English."
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichAs to the movie's three sections, the best comes first, as an eclectic "cast" of characters (among them philosopher Alain Badiou and musician Patti Smith) pontificate their way around a lavish Mediterranean cruise ship.
- 60The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottIn typical Godardian fashion the film manages to be both strident and elusive, argumentative and opaque.
- 40New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDesigned as their own entity, the brief subtitles convey so little that to get the full experience you won't only need to understand Godard's language. You'll also have to speak French.
- 40Boxoffice MagazineRichard MoweBoxoffice MagazineRichard MoweDevotees and the curious may find it mildly diverting, otherwise this effort is not for the faint-headed.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis film is an affront. It is incoherent, maddening, deliberately opaque and heedless of the ways in which people watch movies.