Pierrot le Fou (1965)
La Chinoise (1967)
Weekend (1967)
And what’s not to love, really.
Been on a Godard kick this month. The December viewing diary may be rather monotonous because of it, but it’s been super fun – even Godard’s Maoist tendencies are fun, at least how he portrays (and lampoons) the madness of the mid-late 1960s – and we all need a little fun these days.
When you watch them all together in a cluster, you notice all these themes, and “tics”. It’s well-known how much those French New Wave guys all loved Johnny Guitar – Truffaut’s essay about it is a classic – but it’s funny to see how often Godard references it, in these almost throw-away lines. It’s so film-fan-nerdy.
