Goodbye to Language 3D

Name: Goodbye to Language 3D
Genre: Drama
Released: October 29, 2014
Duration: 70 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Christian Gregori, H, Jessica Erickson, Kamel Abdeli, Richard Chevallier

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: October 29, 2014 | Not Rated

Starring: Christian Gregori, H, Jessica Erickson, Kamel Abdeli, Richard Chevallier, Zoé Bruneau

Summary: The idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town and country. The seasons pass. The man and woman meet again. The dog finds itself between them. The other is in one, the one is in the other and they are three. The former husband shatters everything. A second film begins:The idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town and country. The seasons pass. The man and woman meet again. The dog finds itself between them. The other is in one, the one is in the other and they are three. The former husband shatters everything. A second film begins: the same as the first, and yet not. From the human race we pass to metaphor. This ends in barking and a baby's cries. In the meantime, we will have seen people talking of the demise of the dollar, of truth in mathematics and of the death of a robin.… Expand

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 70 min

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Ty Burr

Mar 19, 2015

When all is said and done, Goodbye to Language may simply be about Jean-Luc Godard exploring 3-D filmmaking, in the same way “The Shining” is really just about Stanley Kubrick wanting to fart around with a Steadicam. Which, honestly, is fine. Great artists use new tools to discover new vehicles for seeing, understanding, living. Be thankful we get to come along for the ride. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Oct 29, 2014

What Goodbye To Language presents — with its nonstop chatter, its endless musical and literary quotations, and its silly puns and poop jokes — is a dense, expressive, aggressive new medium rich with possibilities for juxtaposing images and creating meaning. Read full review

Michelle Orange

Oct 28, 2014

To muddle through confusion, boredom, vaguely formed interest, brief elation, and confusion again is to experience the work as its creator intended. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

May 24, 2014

It’s nice to see this great filmmaker sculpting something that feels genuinely revelatory. That’s not to say that the 3-D Goodbye to Language is always an easy sit. Read full review

Joe McGovern

Nov 6, 2014

Packed with dazzling images, the film makes 3-D feel like something brand-new to the medium. Read full review

Jordan Hoffman

Oct 29, 2014

At only 70 minutes, Goodbye to Language, a Cannes Film Fest Grand Prix winner, has no discernible plot. It’s more like whiffs of a story we sense happening somewhere outside the film. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Oct 29, 2014

Dr. Godard drops and quotes more names than you’d find in a week’s worth of Page Six, but lots of luck figuring any of this out before dozing off. The good thing about Goodbye to Language is that you’ll wake up with no side effects, albeit your wallet will be $12 lighter. Read full review

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mapizarro

Dec 3, 2014

'Goodbye to language' is a most beautiful and synaesthesic experience in cinema. Godard comes back. It's curious that a director 83 aged-old is the Cinema Avat-garde yet. It is like a Schoenberg's piece made in theatre.

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TheDRauch

Dec 29, 2014

Goodbye to Language is a bizarre trip, unlike anything I've ever seen. It reminds me of the film briefly previewed in the documentary 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' called 'Life Remote Control'. It is a series of dichotomous imagery and non-sequitor narrations that in absolutely no way cohedeGoodbye to Language is a bizarre trip, unlike anything I've ever seen. It reminds me of the film briefly previewed in the documentary 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' called 'Life Remote Control'. It is a series of dichotomous imagery and non-sequitor narrations that in absolutely no way cohede into something comprehensive on a logical, sensical, or realistic level. There is a goldmine of ambiguity and symbolism here. However, this is so dense, dense as a brick, that I find it will require MULTIPLE viewings to truly mesh into a thematic whole, and then even MORE viewings after that to finally come to a resolute storyline. I do have interest to see it again, but I don't know if it would be a fruitful usage of my time. Definitely a standout work of the art-house output in 2014. You guys want a challenging flick? Check this out. I'm still baffled.… Expand

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mmweiss

Aug 31, 2015

"Goodbye to Language", the new film by legendary french filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard is as incomprehensible as a film can get. It's a challenging film for sure, and that's why it's so great.

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LowbrowCinema

Jan 29, 2015

Godard's GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE 3D employs the best use of 3D I have ever witnessed. This is filmmaking of the highest caliber. There are two scenes in particular where Godard superimposes two 3D images and then merges them into one. Astouding, disorienting, confusing, brilliant! The audienceGodard's GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE 3D employs the best use of 3D I have ever witnessed. This is filmmaking of the highest caliber. There are two scenes in particular where Godard superimposes two 3D images and then merges them into one. Astouding, disorienting, confusing, brilliant! The audience applauded. Then there's Godard's use of color, b&w and everything in-between with film and video stock ever changing.

And last but not least there is Roxy Mieville. An astounding dog, giving one of the best animal performances ever. He's just a dog, not a trained movie dog. Actually, he's Godard's dog.

Unfortunately, all this brilliance is in service to the same philosophies and politics Godard has been pursuing since the mid-60s. Sadly, the man cannot move on. There is actually discussion of Mao! Dude, it's 2015. I love you Godard but please make a film that captures our time. We need and deserve it. And use Roxy again. He's pretty great.… Expand

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rupertchappelle

Apr 21, 2015

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Worst. 3D Movie. Ever.

Quite possibly the worst French film I have ever seen and I have seen
quite a few, An SNL parody would have been better. This is the kind of
movie that makes Ed Wood seem an Orson Welles by comparison. I am
perplexed that the AFI would include this in a 3D movie festival but
apparently the name Godard counts for something,.

Best line - "the dog looks depressed," No kidding.

Everything about this movie shows contempt for whoever watches it. The
3D is a textbook example of things one should never do with 3D, too
close and too far and too jerky with parallax shifts for no apparent
reason and for some reason intentionally shifts the parallax from left
right to up down while rotating the image. The audio has intentionally
annoying cuts and gaps adding to a sense of discontinuity that needed
no help what so ever.

Literally, the best part of the movie was the frequent pooping.

Notable, Fritz Lang's Metropolis appears on the TV screen in the room
where the man and woman do their best to hone ennui to a dull edge
while Rotwang and Maria add some gravitas that goes nowhere.

MERDE!

BTW - I shoot 3D.… Expand

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sebastianglz

Nov 17, 2014

I still can't believe this won the Jury Prize in Cannes this year. The story loses because all those names and quotes, the history lessons, the changing scenes and the annoying sounds. I've never been so bored in a movie.

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bliss_s

Nov 25, 2014

In the end I felt as if 70 minutes of my life had been stolen... not to mention nauseous from the unbelievably bad 3D cinematography and editing. How could it have won an award? This film was a mishmash of Hitler, nudity, and too many overly long scenes of an ugly man sitting on a toilet.In the end I felt as if 70 minutes of my life had been stolen... not to mention nauseous from the unbelievably bad 3D cinematography and editing. How could it have won an award? This film was a mishmash of Hitler, nudity, and too many overly long scenes of an ugly man sitting on a toilet. There was no discernible plot, no character development... The best thing about the film was the home movie of Godard's dog and even that had been spoiled by over saturated colors and poorly applied 3D. Apparently this movie is the swan song of an over-the- hill director and his cadre of sycophants that seem to believe if you make it painful enough to watch it must be "art".… Expand

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