Film socialisme; Last Year in Marienbad – review

Two stars of the New Wave are still rolling along. Jean-Luc Godard's po-mo puzzle Film socialisme is stubbornly obtuse, even by his gnomic standards. First, we're on a cruise liner where a Swiss banker named Goldberg is hounded; American singer Patti Smith wanders by; people eat and dance at the disco over distorted sounds; someone asks: "What did the British do with the gold of the Bank of Palestine?" There are subtitles, but not many, just fractured words of what JLG has termed "Navajo English...

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