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Rating: 7 stars

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France terrorist secret agent train torture kidnapping

All movies seen on 02/05/2015

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Le Petit Soldat (1963)

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

War | Drama | Romance

Overview

During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man is suspected by the members of his terrorist group of being a double agent.

Length 87 minutes

Actors

Michel Subor | Anna Karina | Henri-Jacques Huet | Paul Beauvais | László Szabó | Georges de Beauregard | Gilbert Edard | Jean-Luc Godard

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

I missed this screening at Film Center during the Godard run this past month so I ordered from the library. Viewing this makes me appreciate Goodbye to Language even more. Different film but the techniques are similar. Anna Karina’s first film with Godard and from which they become romantically involved. Surprisingly graphic water torture. I like how the terrorist plot is really the window dressing around the romance between the young couple.

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