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Goodbye to Language

The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films (BBC)

Adieu au langage

2014

Jean-Luc Godard

Héloise Godet, Zoe Bruneau, Kamel Abdelli, Richard Chevalier ...

5.7

1,665

Drama The idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town and country. The seasons pass. The man and woman meet again. The dog finds itself between them. The other is in one, the one is in the other and they are three. The former husband shatters everything. A second film begins: the same as the first, and yet not. From the human race we pass to metaphor. This ends in barking and a baby's cries. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"A stimulating and playful meditation on the state of the world and the possibilities of the image."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] is chaotic and mad, with longeurs. But it has its own baffling integrity and an arresting, impassioned pessimism. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"'Goodbye To Language' follows in the eye-searing, mind-spinning wake of Godard's recent features, taking the fragmentation even further than in his 'Film Socialisme'."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"'Goodbye to Language' packs plenty of innovation into its brief running time (...) He [Godard] certainly managed to (...) tickle their minds—and that's been the essence of his career from the start."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The everyday world is made vivid and strange, rendered in a series of sketches and compositions by an artist with an eccentric and unerring eye."	POS

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