In Praise of Love (film)

In Praise of Love French loge de lamour 2001 is a French film directed by JeanLuc Godard. The blackandwhite and color drama was shot by Julien Hirsch and Christophe Pollock. Godard has famously stated that a film should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. This aphorism is illustrated by In Praise of Love loge de lamour, which reverses the order of past and present.

Edgar runs into Berthe at a lecture at a Parisian bookstore by expatriate American journalist Mark Hunter about the Kosovo War. Edgar makes it a point to tell Berthe that Hunter is an example of a good American. Afterwards, the two wander the city of signs and monuments, talking through the night and into the next day, eventually stopping at an abandoned Renault plant, where they contemplate the collapse of the workers movement. They part company, and later Berthe speaks with Edgar over the phone they talk about their previous encounter and she questions him as to why he has stopped talking about his project. They end the conversation with an air of finality. Edgar visits a homeless shelter and selects a man sleeping in one of the beds. In a tender but brief moment, Edgar directs two young people, to whom he had earlier assigned the roles of Perceval and his love Eglantine, to bathe the man in a shower. Mr. Rosenthal is there to witness the scene, but the status of the project is unclear. In the final scene of the black and white section, Edgar goes to meet a man who has some news for him about Berthe.The second section of the film is shot in video with oversaturated color. An intertitle announces that it is two years earlier. Edgar arrives in Brittany and is met by the same man he has just seen at the end of part one. The man, a minister of culture for the area, is there to take Edgar to meet Jean Lacouture, whom Edgar proceeds to interview about the role of Catholics in the French Resistance, in connection with a cantata he is writing for Simone Weil. This encounter leads Edgar to meet an elderly couple who fought in the Resistance and have been together ever since. The couple is meeting with delegates from the American state department who are helping to broker a deal on behalf of Spielberg Associates. The company wants to purchase the rights to the couples story for a film written by William Styron and starring Juliette Binoche. The couples granddaughter, in tr

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