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  • Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, Roland Amstutz, Cécile Tanner
  • Directors: Jean-Luc Godard
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Artificial Eye
  • DVD Release Date: 23 Jan 2006
  • Run Time: 84 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000AQVIL
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,465 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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This Jean-Luc Godard film, SLOW MOTION was his first after dabbling in the world of commercial film and when it was released, the public rejoiced that he was back making features. This film centers around three characters that are moving in different directions, at completely different junctures. A country girl (Isabelle Huppert) moves to the city to become a prostitute. A city woman (Nathalie Baye) wants to start a new life by moving to the country, and a director (Jacques Dutronc) is despairing the loss of his child and wife, from whom he is separated. There's a lot to love about this film, whether it is the performances or Godard use of stop motion photography. A must see for film lovers.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Godard Grows Old Disgracefully, 6 Jun 2006
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Jacques Dutronc is violently estranged from his wife & daughter and becoming violently estranged from his girlfriend Nathalie Baye who wants to quit the city & live in the country. Isabelle Huppert is a prostitute suffering from her pimps yet acting as pimp for her own kid sister. The paths of these characters cross: Dutronc spends a night with prostitute Huppert who later, by coincidence, turns up to take the departing Baye's apartment.

Conventional wisdom has it that all of Godard's 60s films are great and that he flipped out in 68 & took a decade to make a comeback, his later films being unpopular, difficult & often exasperating. However, it may be time to reassess some of these later films, especially the two initial "comeback" films Slow Motion & Passion. DVD might be the ideal format since such films work better with repeat viewings & Slow Motion (1980) is an amazingly dense, complex film - almost every scene is full of visual & audio innovation, most obviously in the use of slow motion & stop-motion to make striking images of everyday actions (Baye riding a bicycle) & acts of violence (to very different effect than Peckinpah, Tarantino et al).

The main idea behind Slow Motion is that under late capitalism all relations - work, sexual, family - are violent power relations, epitomised by the relation of prostitute to client & pimp. It's a crude idea that runs through many Godard films. Slow Motion represents all this as absurd parody & one clue to the movie is that it was a collaboration with Jean-Claude Carriere, who wrote screenplays for Bunuel. But Bunuel's tone was always that of sophisticated wit, whereas Slow Motion is so black it ceases to be comedy in any conventional sense. Indeed the film may still be extremely offensive to many in its treatment of sex & violence (including the notorious "office" sex scene). Slow Motion is a difficult & challenging film in just about every way but undeniably a brilliant film. Fantastic acting too, especially from Huppert. As usual with Artificial Eye this DVD edition is basic, but as an extra you do get a typically impenetrable Godard cine-essay on the making of the film.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A film like a book, 29 April 2007
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This film has had good reviews unlike some for other Godard films. This, like so many Godard films is more like a novel, where the narrative moves from one part of the whole to another with the story gradually coming together towards the end. Most films carry the story in a more linear fashion making them universally understandable, but this is not Godard's way.

Additionally, the film is shocking in its depiction of male female relationships, especially in relation to the treatment of the character of the prostitute, and here lies a curious thing. The male lead has a difficult and barely restrained relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, and shows signs of becoming increasingly violent with his girlfriend who wants to leave the city, asking him to commit himself to leaving the city or her. But, in a brief encounter with the prostitute, he treats her with something like tenderness, unlike all the other men she encounters in the film. The prostitute explains to her sister, who wants to join her in prostitution, that it is not the acts she will be asked to commit, but the fact that all of her encounters will involve men who seek only to degrade her. This point is reinforced powerfully in a scene where she is involved in a complicated sex game that demonstrates a bizarre exercise in power. This, and other depictions of women, have led to criticisms about Godard mysogeny, but I wonder if he is being a profound, if sceptical, observer of male female relationships that fail on most levels to become anything approaching the sort of behaviour we idealise and emphatically believe in.

It is as if Godard uses the vehicle of filmmaking to demonstrate the fakery both of film as a medium and human relationships as an ideal; yet he evidently loves both. A Godard film is something of a journey into the filmmakers psyche, much like the writer of a book; ultimately, this is somehow more interesting than simply watching a story on film as you get something of the person who created it; you don't usually get this from Hollywood.
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4 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Long Overdue!!, 14 Jun 2006
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Stunning / Brilliant / Moving / Poetic / Stream of Consciousness / Unforgettable.
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