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VIDEO RELEASE
Jul 22, 2003 (VHS)
Jul 22, 2003 (DVD)
NUMBERS
Box Office: $38,844
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CAST & CREW
Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
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SYNOPSIS
Jean-Luc Godard has returned to the existential, surreal world he mined in the 1960s with IN PRAISE OF LOVE, which was up for the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was chosen as the closing film for the 39th Annual New York Film Festival. more...
MPAA RATING
Not Rated
RUNTIME
1 hour, 38 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 6, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Manhattan Pictures International
GENRE
Dramas, Surreal, Paris, France
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official In Praise of Love Site
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 "A densely constructed, highly referential film, and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among Jean-Luc Godard's finest work."
-- Jason Wood, BBCI FILMS
 "Granddad of Le Nouvelle Vague, Jean-Luc Godard continues to baffle the faithful with his games of hide-and-seek."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"Snoots will no doubt rally to its cause, trotting out threadbare standbys like 'masterpiece' and 'triumph' and all that malarkey, but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers' time with a gobbler like this."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, NEW TIMES
"A ponderous meditation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 97 minutes."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret, but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Witty, contemplative, and sublimely beautiful."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"The 70-year-old Godard has become, to judge from In Praise of Love, the sort of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to correct them."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"Its director's most substantial feature for some time."
-- Keith Reader, SIGHT AND SOUND
"Godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love, history, memory, resistance and artistic transcendence."
-- John Powers, L.A. WEEKLY
"Those who don't entirely 'get' Godard's distinctive discourse will still come away with a sense of his reserved but existential poignancy."
-- Eric Monder, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"Who knows what exactly Godard is on about in this film, but his words and images don't have to add up to mesmerize you."
-- Kim Linekin, EYE WEEKLY
"Godard's utterly nonlinear drama explores history and memory, old age and youth, love and art, action and reaction, life and existence, and possibly even more ideas than I was unable to mine in one exhaustive viewing."
-- Laura Kelly, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"It just goes to show, an intelligent person isn't necessarily an admirable storyteller."
-- Rachel Gordon, FILMCRITIC.COM
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"Waiting for Godard can be fruitful: 'In Praise of Love' is the director's epitaph for himself."
-- Jeet Thayil, REDIFF.COM
"Even when he's not at his most critically insightful, Godard can still be smarter than any 50 other filmmakers still at work."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"For all its technical virtuosity, the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enough to make one pine for the day when Godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking."
-- Nicholas Schager, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"Intriguing and downright intoxicating."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"Godard uses his characters -- if that's not too glorified a term -- as art things, mouthpieces, visual motifs, blanks."
-- Peter Rainer, NEW YORK MAGAZINE
"Godard’s ode to tackling life’s wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of topical excess...In Praise of Love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that’s unfocused and tediously exasperating."
-- Frank Ochieng, THEWORLDJOURNAL.COM
"Godard has pared down his extravagances into a densely concentrated, resonant simplicity."
-- Gary Mairs, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"Like most of Godard's films, In Praise of Love makes you stay awake and lean forward."
-- Shawn Levy, OREGONIAN
"An unsuccessful attempt at a movie of ideas."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"A grand fart coming from a director beginning to resemble someone's crazy French grandfather."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
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Avg. Rating: 6.7/10 |
"This is a visually stunning rumination on love, memory, history and the war between art and commerce."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fights, of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders, of playing with narrative form."
-- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"For all its bile and incoherence, In Praise of Love is filled with haunting images and insights. Godard may be a lion in winter, but the lion still roars."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"The work of an exhausted, desiccated talent who can't get out of his own way."
-- Charles Taylor, SALON.COM
"The movie's ripe, enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"The beautiful images and solemn words cannot disguise the slack complacency of [Godard's] vision, any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"In my own very humble opinion, In Praise of Love lacks even the most fragmented charms I have found in almost all of his previous works."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"The trick when watching Godard is to catch the pitch of his poetics, savor the pleasure of his sounds and images, and ponder the historical, philosophical, and ethical issues that intersect with them."
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER
"Like the best of Godard's movies ... it is visually ravishing, penetrating, impenetrable."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"What might have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takes a surprising, subtle turn at the midway point."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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"His work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories."
-- Jeremy Heilman, MOVIEMARTYR.COM
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