When he died last month at the age of 91, critics were quick to eulogize Jean-Luc Godard as film’s Pablo Picasso or the cinema’s James Joyce. The Coolidge Corner and Brattle Theatres will screen 3 of his wildest and most freewheeling early films this week:
What a mischievous trio! These are the works of a merry prankster intoxicated by the possibilities of the medium, pushing at its limitations and discovering there are none. Deceptively lighthearted tales of heartbreak and folly, they’re films about foolhardy men trying too hard to be the stars of their own movies, chasing women they’re incapable of understanding.
Godard trashes conventional movie continuity by jump-cutting around during scenes, expanding and contracting the passage of time in ways alienating and invigorating. Cinematographer and former war correspondent Raoul Coutard invented new ways to bring the camera out into the Paris streets, with a then-shocking handheld mobility that’s probably impossible for us to properly appreciate today, as such innovations have become so commonplace.
The Brattle is presenting “Breathless” and “Band of Outsiders” as a double feature this week. I happened to catch the same double bill as a freshman in college at the Theatre 80 St. Marks in the East Village way back in 1993, and will never forget staggering home to my dorm room dizzy, feeling like all of my critical circuitry had just been rewired. The only thing I could be sure of was that I was going to be in love with Anna Karina for the rest of my life.
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