Les Carabiniers by Jean-Luc Godard, 1963
Godard is brutal with this film. It is emotionally, physically, audibly comically tragic and aesthetically unpleasing. Godard's only war film. A war film critiquing war films. He re-processed the film numerous times until it became seamless with actual photojournalistic scenes of butchered bodies. I rarely, rarely, rarely see contemporary war films unless satirical (War, Inc., Tropic Thunder). Now I find, I am resisting any bounty toward Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker.
Godard is brutal with this film. It is emotionally, physically, audibly comically tragic and aesthetically unpleasing. Godard's only war film. A war film critiquing war films. He re-processed the film numerous times until it became seamless with actual photojournalistic scenes of butchered bodies. I rarely, rarely, rarely see contemporary war films unless satirical (War, Inc., Tropic Thunder). Now I find, I am resisting any bounty toward Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker. 