319. Passion (1982)

Rating: 6.4/10
Runtime: 84
Language: French (English .idx subs included)
Country: France
Color: Colour
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084481/

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Cast:
Isabelle Huppert... Isabelle
Hanna Schygulla... Hanna
Michel Piccoli... Michel Boulard
Jerzy Radziwilowicz... Jerzy
László Szabó... Laszlo
Jean-François Stévenin... Le machino
Patrick Bonnel... Bonnel
Sophie Lucachevski... Script-girl
Barbara Tissier
Magali Campos... Magali
Myriem Roussel... Myriem
Serge Desarnanos
Ágnes Bánfalvy(as Ági Bánfalvi)
Ezio Ambrosetti
Manuelle Baltazar

Description: On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making. While Solidarity takes on the Polish government, a Polish film director, Jerzy, is stuck in France making a film for TV. He's over budget and uninspired; the film, called "Passion," seems static and bloodless. Hanna owns the hotel where the film crew stays. She lives with Michel, who runs a factory where he's fired Isabelle, a floor worker. Hanna and Isabelle are drawn to Jerzy, hotel maids quit to be movie extras, people ask Jerzy where the story is in his film, women disrobe, extras grope each other off camera, and Jerzy wonders why there must always be a story.

This is a good introduction to late-period Godard: all (ideological) passion spent, Oncle Jean is just going to show us a good time. Pretty girls lolling around the pool naked, glamourous stars like Hanna Schygulla with little to do, Isabelle Huppert when she could still play dewy-eyed ingenues, a ridiculous peplum being filmed by greedy, unscrupulous types.

It's 1982, the Thatcher-Reagan years; nobody thinks about Vietnam or the Palestinians or civil wars in Africa - people only want to make money. Godard gives us hip product-placement, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Mozart instead of Coke or Pepsi.

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