Precious Bodily Fluids

Tag: Bande à part

  • First Name: Carmen

    Another work from Godard; this one comes after Passion, and clearly follows its style and themes. This time, however, narrative elements are stolen from Godard’s own Pierrot Le Fou, but Godard doesn’t bother to surprise the spectator with a fundamentally different conclusion. It would probably aid a viewing of this film to be familiar with…

  • Bande à part

    Jean-Luc Godard created Bande à part in the middle of his most well-documented period of filmmaking, which is the period when he was most self-conscious about filmmaking in his films. These days Bande à part has become its own caricature, a snippet of the French New Wave that is relatively easy to access while still…