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Padre Padrone unfolds in brief and often brutal bursts of drama that are more reminiscent of Godard movies than of anthropological documentaries; the film's unsettling rhythm is meant to echo the primitive manners of the society it describes. Even more startling is the Tavianis' extravagant use of sound to intensify and comment upon the film's pivotal incidents. When, for instance, the hero first experiences sex (in the form of bestiality), the panting of a chorus of unseen copulators overwhelms the action. Later, a moment of incongruous accordion music smashes the film's pastoral hush...
Comment Ca Va. A new film by Jean-Luc Godard, with Fortini/Cani, by Jean Marie Straub and Daniel Huillet, in program presented by the Cahiers du Cinema, beginning Saturday at 7 in Science Center...
...Ailleurs. a 1974 film by Godard, showing with News From Home, by Chantal Akerman, in a program beginning Sunday at 7 in Science Center...
...troubling psychological portrait of a British couple whose marriage goes to pieces during a vacation trip to Naples. (It is more likely that the break-up between Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders is largely based on Rosselini's own ll-fated romance with Bergman.) French director Jean-Luc Godard said about it, "there are five or six films in the history of the cinema which one wants to review simply by saying 'It is the most beautiful of film,' why say more, in effect, about...Voyage to Italy?" Why, indeed...
...Godard ends by showing that not even he is convinced that all of this means anything. In the last few minutes of the film, he is hunched over in front of two video consoles. On one, the wife, rehashes her complaints and frustrations about life. Godard is only half paying attention. He even seems slightly annoyed, although weary, at his own work--work that ten years ago he would have expected would fire us with his own indignation. The factory theme is echoes in one of the last narrative lines of the film: "Is Papa a landscape or a factory...