Jean-Luc Godard - Eloge de l'amour aka In Praise Of Love

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181912/ [IMG]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518G2N7YKDL.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]This movie is a seduction that led me willingly through its labyrinth...not toward a Minator...but to the riches of cinematic imagery and intellectual meditation. Godard continues his exemplary journey into the unexpected, the unconventional, confounding, but with a paradoxically deliberate pull into the first hand experience of the mystery, not through a narrative telling, but in the evocation of the quick-cut images themselves. Despite the aphorisms and many linguistic delights that tease the mind, its the dense black and white film in the first half of the movie and the sudden shift to digital video color (symbolic, in its gaudiness, of the distortion that occurs in memory) that create effective impact. In its content, the maturation process, memory, history, politics, resistance to the pseudo. and above all art in its many forms are dealt with largely through the eyes of the artist/creator...with a sense of note-taking and exploration. In its anti-Americanism there tends to be exaggeration and projection...although a wise comment ("They're just like us." i.e., the French) is a saving one. The performances are splendid...totally believable with an almost documentary realism. For any film-goer interested in imaginative, challenging movie fare this shouldn't be missed. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Jean-Luc Godard's eagerly awaited Eloge de l'Amour was one of the highlights of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, dividing critics between those who loved its extraordinary beauty and those who found it hard to discern an overall theme from a multitude of contending threads. Certainly the plot is elusive. A young writer (Bruno Putzulu) wants a dark-haired woman (Cecile Camp) to play a role in his evolving project, a study of the four stages of love: meeting, physical passion, separation and reconciliation. By the time the funding comes through, she has killed herself and he looks back to the time when he might, or might not have met her before. Above all, the picture explores the blurred territory between the personal and the collective memory and the difference between a life which is simply lived and one in which the individual brings the power of imagination to their existence. Ultimately, the characters remain curiously faceless and the film fragments into a kaleidoscope of merging images, colours and landscapes and collective experience triumphs. Godard's legendary status as the godfather of French New Wave cinema has long since passed into the realms of cliché. Here, the "present" is shot on the streets of Paris in black and white. Godard's city of light looks as timeless as it did back in 1966 when he made Masculin Feminin. The second part of the film is shot in digital video, absorbing the audience with its electrically intense, mesmerising colours. Eloge de l'Amour is, more than anything, a sensual experience. Godard provokes but doesn't provide any answers. But fans of his more polemical work will enjoy the satirised American producers who want to purchase the rights to the Resistance couple's story. Americans have no memory, says the author. So they buy it from others. Godard never was a fence-sitter.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/11-4.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/22-4.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/33-3.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/44-4.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/55-4.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk75/otr2damascus/66-4.png[/IMG] ------my rip---- I ripped the black & white and color segments of the film separately. It was necessary to use CBR audio in order to join them properly. I managed to do it with VBR but there was a noticeable gap at the transition. extra is the trailer ~~~~~~ blacknwhite.avi ~~~~~~ --- Video Information --- Video Codec Name:...............................XviD ISO MPEG-4 Duration (hh:mm:ss):............................1:00:50 Frame Count:....................................87512 Frame Width (pixels):...........................704 Frame Height (pixels):..........................368 Aspect Ratio:...................................1.913 Frames Per Second:..............................23.976 Video Bitrate (kbps):...........................1224 ......MPEG-4......B-VOP........................ Quality Factor (bits/pixel)/frame:..............0.197" ~~~~~~ color.avi ~~~~~~ --- Video Information --- Video Codec Name:...............................XviD ISO MPEG-4 Duration (hh:mm:ss):............................37:20.512 Frame Count:....................................53719 Frame Width (pixels):...........................704 Frame Height (pixels):..........................368 Aspect Ratio:...................................1.913 Frames Per Second:..............................23.976 Video Bitrate (kbps):...........................1531 ......MPEG-4......B-VOP........................ Quality Factor (bits/pixel)/frame:..............0.246" --- Audio Information --- Audio Codec:....................................0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Sample Rate (Hz):.........................48000 Audio Bitrate(kbps):............................128 Audio Bitrate Type ("CBR" or "VBR"):............CBR Audio Channel Count:............................2 aXXo suxks, the scenesucks, and their rips suck. Mine don't. Enjoy this arthouse masterpiece.

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eldorado303 (2008-08-30)

gonna try this one out man.
as a director myself
i like to see nu wave stuff

thuerrsch (2009-01-16)

Thanks a lot for this fine movie!
The English subtitles are in raw sub/idx format. I converted them to proper SubRip subs, which you can get here: