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3 April 2002 (France)
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Fear and Loathing. A Study. An Approach. A Clearing. No Thing more
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Everything returns to normal after Chernobyl. That is, everything but art. Most of the great works are lost...
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Freida Pinto cast in first post-"Slumdog" role
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A pretentionfest well worth the viewing
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Cast
(Cast) | Woody Allen | ... | Mr. Alien (uncredited) |
 | Freddy Buache | ... | Professor Quentin (uncredited) |
| Leos Carax | ... | Edgar (uncredited) |
 | Julie Delpy | ... | Virginia (uncredited) |
 | Jean-Luc Godard | ... | Professor Pluggy (uncredited) |
| Suzanne Lanza | ... | (uncredited) |
| Kate Mailer | ... | Herself (uncredited) |
| Norman Mailer | ... | The Great Writer (uncredited) |
| Burgess Meredith | ... | Don Learo (uncredited) |
| Michèle Pétin | ... | Journalist (uncredited) |
 | Molly Ringwald | ... | Cordelia (uncredited) |
| Peter Sellars | ... | William Shaksper Junior the Fifth (uncredited) |
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Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear (USA) (video box title)
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90 min
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For words are one thing, and reality, sweet reality, is another thing, and between them is no thing.
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Edited into Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
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The first time I saw this, I really disliked it. Even compared to Godard's other ramblings of the 70's, it was still a little too disparate. But the second time gelled this movie for me and now I truly love this film. It's a wonderful brainstorm about the nature of film and the inherent capacity of art to reform itself. In other words, everything that's being said or will be said has already been said; sounds bleak at first, but it's actually comforting, because then art becomes truly universal and languageless.