Keep Your Right Up

It's amusing to watch and 80's-era Godard film because in some ways it's like an 80's film... directed by Godard. It's also nice to see a Godard film with a sense of humor again. Godard himself plays a film director (with an almost Chaplin-esque clumsiness) alternately knows as the Prince and the Idiot (ala Dostoevsky). He has 24 hours to complete a film in order to secure the financing. This is Godard-lite -- a jumbled up something or other, comedy thing. And while it's clearly one of his lesser films, it never ceases to amaze me that to watch even a bad Godard film is to watch cinema unfold itself. Even the least of his films have a way of inspiring me and filling me with ideas based on his almost inimitable inventiveness.