Synopsis
A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.
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Cast
- Catherine TanvierLa mère
- Christian SinnigerLe père
- Jean-Marc StehléOtto Goldberg
- Patti SmithLa chanteuse
- Robert MaloubierPersonne de la vraie vie
- Alain BadiouLe philosophe
- Nadège Beausson-DiagneConstance
- Élisabeth VitaliLa journaliste FR3 Regio
- Eye HaïdaraLa cameraman FR3 Regio
- Quentin GrossetLucien
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Reader
For all its references to defeat, however, the movie still conveys a sense of rapture with the process of image-making, if not necessarily filmmaking. - 91
IndieWire
Film Socialism is a weighty, intentionally cryptic product that's easy on the eyes and heavy on the mind. - 75
New York Post
You would be hard-pressed to use the word "accessible" to describe Film Socialisme, and that's exactly the way the master wants it. - 70
Village Voice
Film Socialisme deflects interpretation but, so long as one subscribes to the William Carlos Williams injunction "No ideas but in things," it's filled with sensuous pleasures. - 70
NPR
Film Socialisme, his (Godard) latest intellectual assault, includes grating noise, scruffy camera-phone video and subtitles in fractured "Navajo English." - 60
Time Out
As to the movie's three sections, the best comes first, as an eclectic "cast" of characters (among them philosopher Alain Badiou and musician Patti Smith) pontificate their way around a lavish Mediterranean cruise ship. - 60
The New York Times
In typical Godardian fashion the film manages to be both strident and elusive, argumentative and opaque. - 40
New York Daily News
Designed as their own entity, the brief subtitles convey so little that to get the full experience you won't only need to understand Godard's language. You'll also have to speak French.
