Playful, but always daunting. A puddle of urine on the courthouse steps. I wasn't sure what to expect from the film. recovering from a cold, I was charmed by the melange of music, street noise and the vast silence of the ocean; the last of which appears to yield a philosophical full stop on all digressions, into desire, schools of economics, the possibility of human justice and the inertia of the diagnosis in world shorn of meta-narratives. It may be maudlin but Joseph's clutching the television during the Tom Waits song remains for myself the seminal scene in the film. I have to also admit relishing Godard channeling Preston Sturges in the scenes featuring himself.
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