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Originally Posted by TheDom
I totally agree. Godard is always a critic first, artist second in my eyes. It took other directors to pull emotional qualities out of some of his rule breaking, instead of just the theory behind it.
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Yeah, I have an anthology of his film criticism and I love it far more than I do any of his films. The other problem (for me) is that his turn to political dogma in the late 60s robbed him even of that quite free-wheeling spirit in his early films, which, while I'm still not hugely into them, I do prefer them over his later agit-prop stuff.