Goodbye to Language

Goodbye to Language

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Produced by Wild Bunch

201469 min6.0 / 10

A fragmented, philosophically dense meditation on love, language, and meaning that dissolves narrative into metaphor and refuses conventional resolution.

"The idea is simple / A married woman and a single man meet / They love, they argue, fists fly / A dog strays between town and country / The seasons pass / The man and woman meet again / The dog finds itself between them / The other is in one, / the one is in the other / and they are three / The former husband shatters everything / A second film begins: / the same as the first, / and yet not / From the human race we pass to metaphor / This ends in barking / and a baby's cries / In the meantime, we will have seen people talking of the demise of the dollar, of truth in mathematics and of the death of a robin." -JLG

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  • Is Goodbye to Language sad? Yes, very. More sad than 96% of films.

  • Does Goodbye to Language end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 78% of films.

  • Is Goodbye to Language easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 61% of films.

  • Is Goodbye to Language scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 58% of films.

  • Is Goodbye to Language violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

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