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7.1/10
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During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.
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- TriviaThe film was actually completed in 1960, and was Jean-Luc Godard's second film after Breathless (1960). It was shelved for three years by the French censors.
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Bruno Forestier: Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.
- ConnectionsEdited into Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
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This film's approach, part of the French New Wave, was fresh for the time but it fails to deliver a cohesive impact. The two key characters are both part of terrorist groups involved with the Algerian war. The man with a right-wing group and the woman with the left-wing group. They unconvincingly fall for each other during a phony-feeling and rambling photography session scene as he poses as a photojournalist and talks about one's defending ideas not physical territories. As that plays out this guy also needs to assassinate someone yet isn't a true professional so lacks the nerve to do the job. Because people he associates with continue to see him fail they think he is a double agent and lose faith in him and subject him to torture. This film was originally banned for the torture scene yet today feels non-threatening and fake. This didn't work for me and what's the deal with all the painter Paul Klee references?
This film's approach, part of the French New Wave, was fresh for the time but it fails to deliver a cohesive impact. The two key characters are both part of terrorist groups involved with the Algerian war. The man with a right-wing group and the woman with the left-wing group. They unconvincingly fall for each other during a phony-feeling and rambling photography session scene as he poses as a photojournalist and talks about one's defending ideas not physical territories. As that plays out this guy also needs to assassinate someone yet isn't a true professional so lacks the nerve to do the job. Because people he associates with continue to see him fail they think he is a double agent and lose faith in him and subject him to torture. This film was originally banned for the torture scene yet today feels non-threatening and fake. This didn't work for me and what's the deal with all the painter Paul Klee references?
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- Budget
- $180,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $24,296
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,848
- Mar 10, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $24,296
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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