Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Revolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with influential and acclaimed American director Woody Allen on the cultural radiation, the ubiquity and significance of Television, and how Television compares with cinema as a medium and form of expression.
A short documentary capturing Godard interviewing Allen is inherently a singular artifact — two towering cinematic intellects in conversation about television versus cinema. Its novelty is undeniable: the pairing of these two directors, their clashing philosophies, and Godard's characteristically oblique interview style make it one-of-a-kind. The cinematography has a deliberately rough, observational quality appropriate to its documentary form. Acting is not quite applicable but both figures perform themselves with natural charisma. The plot/structure is loose and essayistic rather than formally constructed, and the ending arrives without much resolution or dramatic payoff, feeling somewhat truncated at 25 minutes.