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Anny Romand, Aude Amiot, Bernard Verley, François Germond , Gérard Depardieu ... see more see more... , Jean-Louis Loca , Laurence Masliah , Marc Betton , Monique Couturier , Roland Blanche

God takes over the body of Simon Donnadieu (Gérard Depardieu) in order to make love to his beautiful wife, Rachel (Laurence Masliah). When publisher Abraham Klimt (Bernard Verley) hears about thi... read more read more...s astounding occurrence, he travels to the couple's Swiss town to see whether it's true. French director Jean-Luc Godard's meditation on God's relationship with man is replete with stunning images of the European countryside and nature.

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Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard

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DVD Release Date: February 5, 2008

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  • sanjurosamurai
    February 22, 2010
    sanjurosamurai
    masterfully shot and featuring a wonderful musical score, but the story is mostly rubbish. most of the story is scattered, and the parts that do come together paint an inconsistent and contrived view of both God and of human love.
  • toejambaseball24
    February 28, 2009
    toejambaseball24
    Had this flim not made me so sleepy, I would have mustered the energy to intentionally throw up on the screen. Pretentious, boring, and worst of all... unapologetically French!
  • kylegarvey6
    May 24, 2012
    kylegarvey6
    The Jean-Luc Godard of 1959's BREATHLESS mellowed out considerably over the years, and 1993's OH WOE IS ME is more of a placid meditation than a brash announcement. The same themes run through both -- onmipotence, eroticism, semiotics -- but I think the delivery is vastly differe... read morent.

    In OH WOE IS ME, he retells one of the myths of Amphitryon (while the general's off at battle, Zeus comes down to Earth as a man to nail his wife Alcmene). Godard's character Abraham (played by Bernard Verley) is a publisher in search of missing pages from a manuscript. His "Where are the pages? Are there any pages? Would they be true even if I found them?" quest leads him to Rachel (played by Laurence Masliah) along with her estranged husband Simon (Gerard Depardieu).

    The three characters play out the myth in fragments... Odd for a guy named Depardieu to play someone who may or may not be God [cue laugh track], but the acting is pretty dialed-down and tight... Godard releases such inundations of overlapping dialogue, voiceover, titles that it's very hard to even keep up with the subtitles. They seem to comment on whether words are more expressions or more symbols, and they open up questions of philosophy, theology, etc. Is God omnipotent? If he were, wouldn't we be too? Is love real?

    The film has some beautiful imagery too, especially a ferry seen from the shore when everyone's frozen in its view, an out-of-focus shot of Rachel's slow approach, a close-up on an evergreen branch as thunder cracks in the background. The story as a whole is both vain and defies vanity. Impressive.

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Dennis Schwartz
June 21, 2011
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It's an art-house film for those who enjoy puzzling challenges and don't mind a film that's not meant to be enjoyed. Full Review

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