Photo: Bruno Putzulu as Edgar in Jean-Luc Godard's In Praise of Love
After In Praise of Love's screening at this year's Cannes Film Festival, someone asked Jean-Luc Godard his opinion of Steven Spielberg. Godard, puffing on a cigar, replied: "I don't know him personally. I don't think his films are very good." Godard's opinion was brash but not at all surprising. This is Godard on Spielberg's Schindler's List: "It is strange, he had no idea about the Holocaust so he went and looked elsewhere for inspiration. When we don't have an idea about something, we look first of all within ourselves." This presumptuous statement came on the heels of a recent lawsuit that pitted Spielberg against the late Oskar Schindler's wife, Emile. At 94, the woman lay dying in a German hospital, having lived an entire lifetime under the shadow of her great husband. Spielberg and Schindler's List's screenwriter, Thomas Keneally, were accused of making millions off of Schindler's legacy while Emile received next to nothing. Godard's gripes against Spielberg are personal and they pervade In Praise of Love.
After In Praise of Love's screening at this year's Cannes Film Festival, someone asked Jean-Luc Godard his opinion of Steven Spielberg. Godard, puffing on a cigar, replied: "I don't know him personally. I don't think his films are very good." Godard's opinion was brash but not at all surprising. This is Godard on Spielberg's Schindler's List: "It is strange, he had no idea about the Holocaust so he went and looked elsewhere for inspiration. When we don't have an idea about something, we look first of all within ourselves." This presumptuous statement came on the heels of a recent lawsuit that pitted Spielberg against the late Oskar Schindler's wife, Emile. At 94, the woman lay dying in a German hospital, having lived an entire lifetime under the shadow of her great husband. Spielberg and Schindler's List's screenwriter, Thomas Keneally, were accused of making millions off of Schindler's legacy while Emile received next to nothing. Godard's gripes against Spielberg are personal and they pervade In Praise of Love.
