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Dominican Rep. In Praise of Love
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Drama
A filmmaker Edgar is preparing to make a film about the four stages of love (meeting, passion, separation and reconciliation). Having secured financial backing, his biggest problem is to find a suitable young woman to play his female lead in the film. When finally he finds his ideal actress, a young lawyer named Berthe, she dies soon afterwards. Convinced that he has met her somewhere before, Edgar looks back on his recent past. He ... [+]
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"Godard has created such a hermetic, uncompromising world that only the hardiest cinematic spelunkers are likely to appreciate its depths." | NEU |
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Village Voice | "Éloge de l'Amour has the internal intricacy, precision, and above all, the tenderness of a late Beethoven chamber work." | POS |
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United States |
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"The movie's ripe, enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries." | POS |
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United States |
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"A visually stunning rumination on love, memory, history and the war between art and commerce." | POS |
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United States |
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"Godard may be a lion in winter, but the lion still roars." | POS |
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"The beautiful images and solemn words cannot disguise the slack complacency of [Godard's] vision" | NEU |
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