| Genre: | Art/Foreign |
| Year: | 1982 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 87min |
| Country: | France/Switzerland |
| Cast: | Isabelle Huppert, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Hanna Schygulla. |
| Credits: | Directed by Jean-Luc Godard (French with English Subtitles, color, 35mm) |
Synopsis
Godard, a leading light of the French New Wave in the 1960's and a politically committed film esayist in the 1970's, has now entered a late phase making dense, meditative, visually beautiful fiction films. Passion is the most acclaimed work of this period, consisting of parallel and interwoven stories about a small city: a factory worker (Huppert) fights with her boss (Piccolo) over union issues; a filmmaker (Radzwilowicz) works in a big studio creating elaborate tableaux based on famous European paintings; the factory owner's wife (Schgulla) runs a small hotel and carries on a illicit affair. With humor and uncanny editing and storytelling techniques, Godard gives a fascinating vision of modern economic and gender conflicts, alienation, and longing.
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