Slow Motion Details

This was Godard's first bona fide movie for ten years, the previous decade having been dedicated to increasingly impoverished and experimental video, documentary and TV work. There is nod to the autobiographical — a character who's a washed-up film-maker called Godard — but it's also about the director's pet themes of prostitution, exploitation and cultural politics. No Godard movie is ever conventional, and this one isn't either, but the presence of major stars like Isabelle Huppert and Nathalie Baye is oddly reassuring, nostalgic even, and shows the respect Godard enjoys among the French film community.

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