In Praise of Love (Éloge de l'amour) December 26, 2004

Two distinct narrative themes mingle throughout this provocative essay [details at IMDB]. Beginning in Paris with the first narrative (shot in black-and-white 35mm film to perhaps evoke a simpler time), the artist Edgar is working on an assignment about the nature of love. In the second, shot in color video and set a few years earlier, Edgar journeys to Brittany to interview two veterans of the Resistance, only to learn that their memoirs are being acquired for a Steven Spielberg blockbuster. Linking the two stories is Edgar's unsuccessful liaison with a woman he met in Brittany and again encounters in Paris. In weaving together these threads, Godard contrasts many disparate impressions (2001, 98 minutes).

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