Spoilers ahead…
The film’s most beautiful thought is that art has the power to move you, even if it’s an art you’ve never been exposed to. Sometimes, if you give it a chance, the connect just happens.
There’s one distinguishing trait about Ananda (Choudhury Bikash Das), who looks like he is in his sixties or seventies: he likes porn. “Like a medicine, it heals you from within,” he tells the man at the DVD shop that rents out these films. Look, again, at our protagonist’s name: Ananda means happiness, pleasure. So we think we are in for one of those quirky-funny narratives about old men behaving badly, given that Ananda’s fellow porn-addicts are also middle-aged or more. But Amartya Bhattacharya has other ideas. He’s the writer, cinematographer, editor, and director of what he calls a “humble tribute to Godard”. Adieu Godard cross-cuts between three storylines. The first, of course, is about those old men and porn. The second involves Ananda’s daughter, Shilpa (Sudhashri Madhusmita) and her friend Joe (Dipanwit Dashmohapatra). The third plot is the one that fractures the screenplay in a ruminative and talky fashion, i.e, a Godardian fashion: it’s about the (seemingly) present-day Shilpa and a filmmaker named Pablo (Abhishek Giri).
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brangan
September 13, 2022
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brangan
September 13, 2022
By some utterly spooky coincidence, I just wrote and recorded this review. And I look at my phone afterwards and see that he’s gone. “Adieu Godard”, indeed. Still shaken.
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Deepika
September 13, 2022
Will you be doing more of film festival films too?
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Sri Prabhuram
September 13, 2022
Can’t imagine a spookier coincidence than this.
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Ravi K
September 13, 2022
“Adieu Godard” director says “adieu: to Jean-Luc Godard
https://www.telegraphindia.com/amp/entertainment/tribute-adieu-godard-director-amartya-bhattacharyya-says-adieu-to-jean-luc-godard/cid/1886376
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Karthik
September 14, 2022
A lovely review and a great last line!
Art has the power to move you, even if it’s an art you’ve never been exposed to
is exactly how I felt when I first watched
Breathless. I’ve always felt that the Art in Godard’s films is spelt with a capital A, but the showiness never takes away from its impact.
I just saw that this film is available on a streaming platform(for rent) which is nice. This is not true for many of the “small” films that have gotten good reviews. For example, I have given up trying to find a way to watch “Koozhangal”. One might think that the makers of such an acclaimed film would want to make it easy (not free) for more people to watch the film, but doesn’t seem so..
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