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Éloge de l'amour (2001) -- An artistic vision of love in this trailer for the Godard film

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Writer:
Jean-Luc Godard (writer)
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Release Date:
16 May 2001 (France) more
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Plot:
In part one there is talk of a project on the subject of love, with the example of three couples, one young... more | add synopsis
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2 wins & 3 nominations more
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Philosophy or socioeconomic critique? Godard's eloge de l'amour more (39 total)

Cast

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Bruno Putzulu ... Edgar
Cecile Camp ... Elle
Jean Davy ... Grandfather
Françoise Verny ... Grandmother
Audrey Klebaner ... Eglantine
Jérémie Lippmann ... Perceval
Claude Baignières ... Mr. Rosenthal
Rémo Forlani ... Mayor Forlani
Mark Hunter ... U.S. Journalist
Jean Lacouture ... Historian
Philippe Lyrette ... Philippe, Edgar's Assistant
Bruno Mesrine ... Magician
Djéloul Beghoura ... Algerian (as Djelloul Beghoura)
Violeta Ferrer ... Woman 1
Valérie Ortlieb ... Woman 2
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Also Known As:
In Praise of Love (International: English title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for thematic elements and brief language.
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97 min
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American Beauty (1999) can be heard playing in the background of one of the scenes. more
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References Titanic (1997) more
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L'Atalante more

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Philosophy or socioeconomic critique? Godard's eloge de l'amour, 18 December 2007
Author: Carl Packman from United Kingdom

Critic Douglas Morrey says Godard's cinema is not simply about philosophy or cinema with philosophy, rather it is cinema as philosophy. The question is whether the film is concerned with philosophical issues, or a more simple polemic of how love is failed by the capitalist machine? Philosophy or socio-economics?

Filmmaker Edgar (Bruno Putzulu) pitches an idea for a project about love. When casting for the female antagonist, he meets a girl who he thinks he has met before. He later finds out that she has died. He soon realises where he had met her before in a flashback from two years before to when he was working on a production of suffering during WWII. The film is a critique on Hollywood and how capitalism is destroying cinema and love.

As for Socio-economics, (Late) Capitalism strives to be the End of History and would consequently maintain freedom of capital over the freedom of mankind (Demonstrable in the film where Edgar wants his film to be history not Hollywood)

The film succeeds in offering a philosophical problem, but demonstrates philosophy's inability to enter into any realm other than the abstract.

Godard here follows Marx' dictum: 'Philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it'.

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