In Praise of Love
2001 · 99 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 3,084 VOTES · DIR. Jean-Luc Godard
Overview
Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.
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00:00:33 Do you remember the names?
00:04:03 Let's call it a sociological study.
00:08:04 ln ancient times they emphasized relationships.
00:11:39 Luckily she had no signature power.
00:14:55 We have to examine this business more closely
00:20:08 So, did you find the line?
00:27:15 They're at the pool.
00:30:20 ''This totality of the universe offered both
00:34:13 ''of the Albanians of Kosovo.
00:38:48 ''and so long that it fell to the floor in rings.''
00:42:47 What about silence?
00:46:15 When l think about something
00:51:04 ''the debris
00:57:12 Every thought should recall a capsized smile.
01:01:11 TWO YEARS EARLlER
01:06:27 What does Françoise think?
01:10:38 Each clings to the conviction that he is unchanging.
01:14:20 You say ''American writer.''
01:17:15 SO LONG AGO
01:22:26 The image, sir
01:25:58 Heaven and Earth shall pass.
01:29:51 l'm going to bed.
01:33:43 The preterit creates a present image.
01:38:01 Maybe nothing was said.