Umbugbene wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 7:05 pm
Incidentally, there's a brilliant joke that I think goes over most people's heads. The teacher at one point asks the students to translate Shakespeare back into English, as if beginner students could possibly come anywhere close to doing it justice!
Ha, yeah, I enjoyed the pointlessness of that exercise. I like your reading and it all makes sense, though physically Arthur looks a lot more like Godard and the Franz/France/Godard connection seems a bit tenuous to me. Definitely stuff I'll pay attention to when/if I re-watch it.
I also much prefer Truffaut's work and I don't think of him as especially iconoclastic, he's more of a Paul McCartney to Godard's Lennon, content to soften and make 'granny films' like
Stolen Kisses and
Day for Night which are actually brilliant, while the one Vertov group JLG film I saw,
British Sounds is more like Yoko Ono nonsense.
Anyway, gonna watch
Every Man for Himself next before I go back to Godard's 60s work of which I still have to see everything from
Une femme mariée onwards.