Rohmer and Maud

When asked to respond to Bazin's question (What is cinema?), Rohmer says something to this effect: it is the art of space. His film seem to deal with space not as a geographic thing but as an area between people that deserves consideration.

WEEK-END

What's logic? Capitalism leads to cannibalism? The end of cinema? What?

Alpha 60

Poetry transforms darkness into light in a computer controlled society at war with art, thought, and love (Andrew Sarris).

Contemptuous

This film takes on myriad subjects, not the least of which is BB, her image, and "woman" more generally. In the crucial scene early in the film as JLG frames her nude body in the blue, white, and red of the French flag, to the overall manner of love and obsession that fills the film, JLG seems to take on so many subject that one could argue that the film finally falls apart to some degree. Hm.

Pierrot

Pierrot le fou is a film that showcases all of JLG's machinations: criticism of society's acceptance of the status quo, the impotence of revolution, the challenges of living life. What say you?