Hearing the opening bars of Beethoven's 'Rasumovsky' Quartet in F major, no1 tonight on TTN took me back in memory to a Godard movie I saw in about 1965 while at University. This opening phrase appeared several times in the soundtrack. Even more striking was a repeated ten-note phrase from the extraordinary Op 131: the experience sent me out to buy an LP of this remarkable work, which nonetheless remained somehow inaccessible to me. (Anthony Hopkins once introduced a Talking About Music programme on one of the late quartets saying that it was traditional to think as though one must approach them having spent several hours with an icepack on one's head.)
I wonder if anyone remembers this movie? I can remember nothing else, although no doubt it involved moody shots of Anna Karina looking soulful. I could do some online research and track it down, but I thought it more fun to see what anyone else might recall, and how much they liked or disliked those very much of-their-time Godard films. I haven't seen one in decades, but I suspect they would look both mannered and old-fashinoned now. Much as Godard was revered in my youth, I don't think he will actually be remembered as a great director, although he was undoubtedly influential.
I wonder if anyone remembers this movie? I can remember nothing else, although no doubt it involved moody shots of Anna Karina looking soulful. I could do some online research and track it down, but I thought it more fun to see what anyone else might recall, and how much they liked or disliked those very much of-their-time Godard films. I haven't seen one in decades, but I suspect they would look both mannered and old-fashinoned now. Much as Godard was revered in my youth, I don't think he will actually be remembered as a great director, although he was undoubtedly influential.
to the themes of mortality - Love and Death with a lightness of touch, long before Woody Allen got hold of them...)
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