With a tip of the hat to Jerry Lewis, Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati, and (for good measure) Dostoyevsky, Jean-Luc Godard wrote, directed, edited and stars in this mind-boggling comedy. The rambling plot involves a hapless filmmaker (Godard) and his attempt to meet a deadline for delivering a film. From there the movie branches out into an abstract, episodic structure. "...engages even as it baffles...The confusion that results, punctuated by glimmerings of understanding, is the point" (A.O. Scott, The New York Times). In French with English subtitles.

Jean-Luc Godard---France/Switzerland---1987---82 mins.

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  Release Date: 05/14/2002