Le Redoutable (Redoubtable) [Sub: Eng]
During the making of one of his films, French film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 17-year old actress Anne Wiazemsky and later marries her.
1 January 1973, Messina, Sicily, Italy
December1979
2 February 1935, Paris, France
1 January 1991, Paris, France
October 09, 2017
... Redoubtable fails on its own terms, falling short of the basic task of generating cinematic excitement and interest even out of the historic events which are more than the background to its story.
October 06, 2017
This obsession with humanizing real characters, icons and myths on the screen is reaching troubling limits... [Full review in Spanish]
September 14, 2017
Choosing to ignore abuse, and taking away Anne's voice and agency in order to give a fuller view to Hazanavicius' beloved, Le Redoutable becomes much worse than a simple empty pastiche, verging into its own misogyny.
October 30, 2017
On the whole Redoubtable offers its audience way more than they bargained for with its genuinely impressive period representation of the events of 68, but it is ultimately let down but not quite knowing what it wants to be.
May 22, 2017
Serious cinephiles will likely reject it as glib and disrespectful, while more mainstream viewers could be amused but not that interested.
November 14, 2017
Reducing Godard to an advertising colour palette of primary reds and blues, Le Redoubtable is a crude, pointless exercise with no comprehension of Godard's filmmaking, cinema history, or, indeed, life itself.
December 29, 2017
Although it's probably not the film hardcore Godard fans wanted, Redoubtable is a funny, paint-by-numbers biopic about a man who revolutionized cinema as we know it, and remains a significant attempt nonetheless.
May 24, 2017
Le Redoutable is a jokey Wikipedia cartoon of a biopic, skin deep in its character study and aggressively amused by its own barrage of Trivial Pursuit winks.
October 12, 2017
Havanicius sprays his subject with acid wit, and will delight cinéastes with several cunning pastiches of Godard's film-making style, though it's difficult to imagine that the venerable auteur, now 86, will see the joke.
May 22, 2017
A lightly audacious and fascinating movie (if not exactly one to warm your heart) ...
November 28, 2017
Hazanavicius beautifully recaptures the anarchic energy of Godard's iconic early works.
May 24, 2017
The main triumph of Hazanavicius' film is that it makes [Godard] human.

