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  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard returns to the screen with Film Socialisme, a magisterial essay on the decline of European Civilization. As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean (with Patti Smith among its guests), Godard embarks on a state of the EU address in a vibrant collage of philosophical quotes, historical revelations...

Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard

Written By: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Paul Curnier, Roland Dubillard, Hannah Arendt, Otto von Bismarck, Jean-Paul Sartre, Léon Brunschvicg, Jean Giraudoux, André Malraux, Fernand Braudel, Claire Simon, Neal Gabler, Luigi Pirandello, Paul Ricoeur, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, Claude Lévi-Strauss

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 42 m

Film Socialisme

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
64
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 12 User Ratings
4.9
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Summary Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard returns to the screen with Film Socialisme, a magisterial essay on the decline of European Civilization. As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean (with Patti Smith among its guests), Godard embarks on a state of the EU address in a vibrant collage of philosophical quotes, historical revelations...

Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard

Written By: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Paul Curnier, Roland Dubillard, Hannah Arendt, Otto von Bismarck, Jean-Paul Sartre, Léon Brunschvicg, Jean Giraudoux, André Malraux, Fernand Braudel, Claire Simon, Neal Gabler, Luigi Pirandello, Paul Ricoeur, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, Claude Lévi-Strauss

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Jean-Marc Stehlé

Otto Goldberg (segment "Des choses comme ça")

Agatha Couture

Alissa (segment "Des choses comme ça")

Mathias Domahidy

Mathias (segment "Des choses comme ça")

Quentin Grosset

Ludovic (segment "Des choses comme ça")

Olga Riazanova

Olga - Russian secret agent (segment "Des choses comme ça")

Maurice Sarfati

(segment "Des choses comme ça")

Patti Smith

Self - Singer (segment "Des choses comme ça")

Lenny Kaye

Self - Guitarist (segment "Des choses comme ça")

Bernard Maris

Self - Economist (segment "Des choses comme ça")

Marie-Christine Bergier

Frieda von Salomon (segment "Des choses comme ça")

Nadège Beausson-Diagne

Constance (segment "Des choses comme ça")

Bob Maloubier

Self - French secret agent (segment "Des choses comme ça")

Dominique Devals

(segment "Des choses comme ça")

Alain Badiou

Self - Lecturer (segment "Des choses comme ça")

Elias Sanbar

Self - Haifan Historian (segment "Des choses comme ça")

Catherine Tanvier

Catherine - Mother (segment "Quo vadis Europa")

Christian Sinniger

Jean-Jacques Martin - Father (segment "Quo vadis Europa")

Marine Battaggia

Florine "Flo" Martin (segment "Quo vadis Europa")

Gulliver Hecq

Lucien "Lulu" Martin (segment "Quo vadis Europa")

Elidan Arzoni

Catherine's friend (segment "Quo vadis Europa")

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
64
54% Positive
7 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
64
54% Positive
7 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review

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100
Jun 9, 2011
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.
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80
Jan 20, 2012
With its rich, layered storytelling, Film Socialisme is, in its broadest sense, about nothing less than the history, present and future of Western civilization, up to and including Internet videos of cats.
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75
Jun 3, 2011
You would be hard-pressed to use the word "accessible" to describe Film Socialisme, and that's exactly the way the master wants it.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 1, 2011
Film 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.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
60
May 31, 2011
As 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.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 6, 2011
Devotees and the curious may find it mildly diverting, otherwise this effort is not for the faint-headed.
By Richard Mowe FULL REVIEW
25
Jun 9, 2011
This film is an affront. It is incoherent, maddening, deliberately opaque and heedless of the ways in which people watch movies.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 12 User Ratings
4.9
50% Positive
6 Ratings
8% Mixed
1 Rating
42% Negative
5 Ratings

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Mixed or Average Based on 12 User Ratings
4.9
50% Positive
6 Ratings
8% Mixed
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42% Negative
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Production Company Vega Film, Office Fédéral de la Culture, Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR), Ville de Genève, La, Suissimage, Fonds Regio Films, Fondation Vaudoise, George Foundation, Wild Bunch, Canal+, ECM Records
Release Date Jun 1, 2011
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline La liberté coûte cher (Freedom is expensive)
Website http://www.bowjapan.com/socialisme
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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