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With his almost innate souplesse, Godard gets himself out of the problems he himself has raised. He poses in an unusually direct form - the film was shot in his own home at Rolle in Switzerland - the traditional question of whether it is still possible to communicate without immediate distortion, at a time when massacres occur daily in Beirut and the Black Forest is vanishing, and neither event counts as news. This is, notwithstanding, a cheerful and 'soft' film, in which he imitates McEnroe perfectly. Godard interrupts his cogitations with stills from archive films, but when after much thought he puts on a tape in his own video library, he chooses a Juventus match with Michel Platini. Cinema is supposed to be getting nonsensical because we are no longer seeking a path to our language, but 'Quand, o quand' - to quote Miéville - shall we see another such witty offering from Godard?
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Erik Daams
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Camera: Pierre Binggeli, Production: Deptlord Beach Productions, J.L.G. Films, Channel Four, With: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
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