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Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jerzy Radziwilowicz ... see more see more... , Laszlo Szabo , Jean-François Stévenin , Myriem Roussel , Sophie Loucachevski , Barbara Tissier , Marie-Sophie L.

Passion, a major film in Jean-Luc Godard's ongoing investigation of the relations between painting and cinema, uses innovative forms to explore political and economic questions. Jerzy Radziwilowicz pl... read more read more...ays a director shooting a film whose scenes are all reproductions of paintings by Goya, Valasquez, and other European masters. Production comes to a halt when his producers refuse to increase his budget until he explains the film's story to them. Meanwhile, the director is ending an affair with Hanna (Hanna Schygulla), the wife of Michel (Michel Piccoli), who is the manager of the hotel where the film's cast and crew are staying. In a sub-plot, Isabelle Huppert plays a factory worker who attempts to unionize her fellow employees. The story of Passion is elliptical and incomplete. It is a means of presenting a collection of scenes and images on related themes. This kind of story will become the hallmark of Godard's later career. The links among the episodes become even looser in such films as Germany: Year Nine Zero and For Ever Mozart. Passion marks the reunion of Godard with director of photography Raoul Coutard, who shot many of Godard's films of the 1960s. The cinematography is key to understanding this difficult film in which how an image is shot is as important as what it depicts. Godard and Coutard favor shots that begin as open, disorganized framings and become painterly compositions as the people and things in them move. ~ Louis Schwartz, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 27 min.

Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard

Release Date: May 26, 1982

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DVD Release Date: August 25, 1998

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  • sanjurosamurai
    February 5, 2010
    sanjurosamurai
    does godard get credit for this mess because its a good film, or because he's jean luc godard? im not at all sure what he was doing here, but there are too many problems to list.
  • SirPant
    January 6, 2010
    SirPant
    Autobiographical? Was Godard having a dark period? I get his point but under the same thought, why bother making a film about it? I suppose it needed to be raised, I just wonder what impact it really had. Interesting and intriguing but not particularly entertaining.

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Vincent Canby
May 20, 2003
Vincent Canby, New York Times

Mr. Godard has made a funny, fractured, totally self-absorbed movie, without a real story, about the making of a movie that has no real story. Full Review

Felix Gonzalez Jr.
February 14, 2008
Felix Gonzalez Jr., DVD Review

In spite of its best intentions, the film is a frustrating, even challenging, but ultimately empty experience. Full Review

August 29, 2006
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A superb film with more narrative than one usually expects from Godard and a surprising amount of humor. Full Review

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
July 23, 2003
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

An intriguing movie by Jean-Luc Godard about love and work Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
January 1, 2000
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

This film has enough intellectual stimulation in it for me not to loathe it... Full Review

August 8, 2008
Variety

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Emanuel Levy
June 19, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Derek Adams
June 24, 2006
Derek Adams, Time Out

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May 24, 2003
Film4

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