This film tracks the life of French New Wave director Jean Luc Godard over the period of the Student Revolution in 1968 and beyond as he becomes increasingly involved with Marxism and Maoism in particular. There are some uproariously funny scenes here at the same time as his marriage and personal life are fracturing. The parody of the National Assembly in the French Revolution where Godard is invited to address the student body, only to have them turn on him as yesterday's man, probably lucky not to be denounced and guillotined. His participation in the student riots only to have his spectacles repeatedly broken. The long car trip from Cannes to Paris where the six people squashed in the car all argued continuously with each other the whole time. Godard's astonishment when a film he made to please the Chinese was denounced by them as s**t. It was round about here where he began to lose all his friends and the marriage to his lovely actress wife began to sour. The mood changed to one of melancholy but fortunately this was just a few years in his life and I understand he mellowed later or maybe just grew up. I enjoyed the film quite a lot.
