Here Godard sees a giant cruise ship as a metaphor for Europe- decadent, crass, greedy people enjoying luxury largely serviced by non-European workers, sailing an uncharted territory surrounded by ominous, choppy water.

| Mar 21, 2021

It's dissonant, all right, maddening and obtuse all once - but all Godard has succeeded in doing here is burying his head firmly up his own ass.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 5, 2019

As Godard shows again and again himself, History, like Hollywood, will churn out the same stories again and again when revenge cycle of "chosen peoples" go unvanquished.

| Oct 26, 2018

I have to swallow my pride here and say that JLG lost me with Film Socialism.

| Oct 4, 2017

As he becomes increasingly removed from society but with a sharpened gaze, Godard's painting grows ever more pertinent, exquisite and moving...

| Oct 3, 2017

Like all of his films, Film Socialisme is a conversation Godard has with us: inconclusive, bristling with half-thoughts, jokes and sudden revelations.

| Apr 18, 2016

Since Mr. Godard continues to innovate the cinematic form and experiment with the digital format, it's just really jarring to see some of the backward ideas in this film.

| Oct 7, 2015

'No comment' is a shifter, referring back not only to this enigmatic, painful, off-putting, ravishing Film Socialisme-but to all the Godard films that preceded it.

| Jul 12, 2013

Intriguing but puzzling head-scratcher on the decline of Western civilization.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 25, 2012

The movie's critique of globalization ... is vast in scope, and the fragmented narrative is replete with allusions.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 2, 2012

likely to be an unbearable experience for anyone other than for Godard himself and his most hardcore adherents

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 27, 2012

With its rich, layered storytelling, "Film Socialisme" is, in its broadest sense, about nothing less than the history, present and future of Western civilization, up to and including Internet videos of cats.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 19, 2012

There's real beauty in the film, thanks to Godard's innate gifts for frame-composition and montage and his avid embrace of new ideas.

| Oct 27, 2011

If you watch "Film Socialisme" with patience, good things are bound to happen.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 29, 2011

This isn't exactly a popcorn movie. I'm not sure it's even a movie, as much as an edgy art installation.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 1, 2011

I can hardly imagine a less marketable film, but that's part of the joy of watching this deliberately unwatchable thesis.

| Original Score: B | Aug 26, 2011

Quickly avant-gardes itself right into incomprehensibility.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 14, 2011

Many people leave. We stay end. Not sure why.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2011

If Film Socialism is intended to be Godard's final coda, it's clear that he has a great deal left to say (even if most of us won't be able to understand what, exactly, it is that he's saying).

| Original Score: 59/100 | Jul 13, 2011

The cumulative effect of this plotless collage is bizarrely comforting and I totally know what JLG is on about (something to do with ownership, sovereignty and old Europe), not that he'd care if I didn't.

| Jul 10, 2011