Digital Truths: Weil’s Platonic Cinema (Part Two)

27th December 2016Jean-Luc Godard, Minus Plato Today, Simone WeilJean-Luc Godard, Simone WeilMinus Plato

Ever since I watched it, I have wanted to write about Jean-Luc Godard’s 2004 film Notre Musique. Set in Sarajevo, it tells the story of two women – Olga and Judith – and debates ideas of violence, ethics, colonialism, the Other and the Israeli-Palestine conflict. The main reason that I obsessed over the film was […]

The Poverty of Language in 3D: Lucretius, Atomism and Jean-Luc Godard’s Adieu au langage

16th December 2014Adieu au Langage, Atomism, Goodbye to Language, Jean-Luc Godard, LucretiusMinus Plato

Here in Madrid, although it is possible to watch the Jean-Luc Godard’s new film Adieu au langage (Goodbye to Language) at a cinema (the same cannot be said for many countries!), sadly it is not being shown in 3D, as the director intended (see this article Godard en 3D sin 3D). So, in the end, […]