Godard Mon Amour
Cohen Media Group | Release Date: April 20, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
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Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
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9
Mixed:
12
Negative:
3
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100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleApr 25, 2018
In color, style and humor — even in its graphics and editing — it’s very much like a Godard film from the mid-1960s. Thus, the experience is like watching an actual Godard film — the first great Godard film since “Masculin Féminin” in 1966. Read full review
90
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyMay 27, 2017
It’s a dazzlingly executed, hugely enjoyable act of stylistic homage, but also the poignant story of a dysfunctional marriage and an insightful recreation of a critical and contradiction-ridden period of modern French history. Read full review
83
IndieWireEric KohnMay 27, 2017
Light and inoffensive, it trades the intellectual rigor of Godard’s work for fluffy sentiments, but never gets crass. Above all else, it succeeds at transforming cinephile trivia into a genuine crowdpleaser. Read full review
75
The Film StageRory O'ConnorMay 27, 2017
It’s more Pastiche du Godard than Histoire(s) du Godard in Michel Hazanavicius’ Redoubtable and that’s not a bad thing. Read full review
70
Vanity FairJordan HoffmanApr 25, 2018
Hazanavicius is one of our weirder directors. His schtick is to parrot other styles, either with his parody Bond films (the two OSS 117 movies) or The Artist. But Le Redoutable is his best work, I think, and not just because I’m fond of the French New Wave. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternApr 19, 2018
The result is an entertainment of surprising liveliness. It’s also mindbait for Godard fans in which admiration for what the venerable filmmaker has achieved--he’s still turning out films at 87--is mixed with faintly elegiac regret for the stern, remote figure he’s become. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanMay 27, 2017
A lightly audacious and fascinating movie (if not exactly one to warm your heart). Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyApr 21, 2018
Michel Hazanavicius’ new film, Godard Mon Amour, tackles that period in Godard’s life on and off the screen — and does it in a dismissively light-hearted way that I’m sure the auteur himself loathes. Read full review
67
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicMay 27, 2017
It’s all fun and games and one big, great joke as we watch the cantankerous Jean-Luc dismiss his admirers and spit on contemporary cinema, but it’s hard to praise Redoubtable as a great film once its final act comes around Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzApr 26, 2018
Both Garrel and Martin are good. And it’s important to note that Hazanavicius is quite adept at the comedic bits, as well as at the occasional more-serious scenes, which deal with the disintegration of the marriage. The problem is his inability to merge the disparate tones. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyMay 27, 2017
Although the film manages some disarming insights into the man’s complex makeup and difficult behavior, a service enhanced by Louis Garrel’s very good lead performance, serious cinephiles will likely reject it as glib and disrespectful, while more mainstream viewers could be amused but not that interested. Read full review
60
CineVueJohn BleasdaleMay 27, 2017
Garrel and Miller manage to create a credible chemistry. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 27, 2017
Michel Hazanavicius’s Redoubtable is a reasonably funny, moderately interesting movie, wearing its sprightly colourful pastiche like dry-cleaned retro couture. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 9, 2018
A diverting bagatelle that could have been tougher, a pastiche that could have probed deeper. Tant pis, as Godard himself might have said: Too bad. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireApr 20, 2018
Thankfully, the film does get better in its second half. Not a lot better, but enough to justify one’s continuing attention. Read full review
50
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpApr 18, 2018
Godard Mon Amour captures the complications and the controversy, but Hazanavicius struggles to drum up meaningful insights into what makes Godard Godard. Read full review
50
Village VoiceSerena DonadoniApr 18, 2018
Although writer-director Hazanavicius based the biopic on Wiazemsky’s memoir, Un An Après (One Year Later), Wiazemsky gets portrayed as a passive observer, a minor character in her own story. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter TraversApr 18, 2018
What we have left in Godard Mon Amour, after the laughs dry up, is a thin sketch of a filmmaker who inspired a hero worship in his young bride that dissolved in squabbling, as had Godard's first marriage to another of his leading ladies, actress Anna Karina. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyApr 17, 2018
Though adapted from her memoirs, Godard Mon Amour dubiously minimizes her character. The most it offers is a depiction of a deteriorating marriage between a beautiful woman and an asshole who’s in the middle of a crisis of artistic conscience. And Godard already made one of those. It’s called "Contempt." Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleApr 19, 2018
The kind of curiously inconsequential homage that neither stokes your interest in cinema/Godard nor illuminates a turbulent love story between artists. Read full review
40
The New York TimesA.O. ScottApr 18, 2018
For hard-core Godardians, Godard Mon Amour will be an indispensable hate-watch. For the Godard-ambivalent, the critical outrage of the partisans will provide its own kind of amusement. But you don’t need to have strong feelings about Godard to notice the off flavors in this airy, brightly colored macaron. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMay 10, 2018
There are good intentions lurking here, especially in star Louis Garrel’s performance, but the film consistently fails to engage on an even basic level. Read full review
38
Boston GlobePeter KeoughApr 25, 2018
Godard Mon Amour is very much like a Woody Allen film, with Godard embodying Allen’s negative traits of pretentiousness, neurosis, and misogyny without the redeeming virtue of humor. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineSam C. MacApr 16, 2018
Michel Hazanavicius co-opts Jean-Luc Godard's personal life for cheap prestige-picture sentiment. Read full review
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