Michel Hazanavicius won the Oscar in 2012 for “The Artist,” an old-timey black-and-white film set in the era of flickering silent films. His latest film, “Godard Mon Amour,” is another homage to ...

Jean-Luc Godard, director of landmark films such as “Breathless,” “Contempt” and “Weekend,” was fascinated not only by the cinema, but also by politics. When university students organized massive ...

Michel Hazanavicius won the best-director Oscar in 2012 for “The Artist,” an old-timey black-and-white film set in the era of flickering silent films. His latest film, “Godard Mon Amour,” is another ...

What a difference an actor makes. Writer-director Michel Hazanavicius, who won a best director Academy Award for “The Artist” (2011), which was also named best picture, returns to the subject of the ...

In “Godard Mon Amour,” writer-director Michel Hazanavicius takes everything great about the French director Jean-Luc Godard and uses it to explain everything that’s wrong with him. Like the best of ...

Here’s a pithy pullquote for Godard Mon Amour’s posters and trailers: “Boy, it sure is French!” Its language, of course, is French, as one would expect from a biopic about Jean-Luc Godard and Anne ...

As Godard Mon Amour opens, he’s just completed his latest film, La Chinoise, starring the 19-year-old Anne Wiazemsky (Stacy Martin). The reaction to his airlessly didactic new film is a mix of ...

Watch a clip from the movie ‘Godard Mon Amour,’ starring Louis Garrel. Photo: Cohen Media Group We don’t see Godard on set directing his film, apart from a fleeting glance in a visually witty preface.

Michel Hazanavicius’ “Godard Mon Amour” is a quirky little movie, at once a look at the radicalization of the great Jean-Luc Godard and a deconstruction of his personality. Hazanavicius, best known as ...

Sadly, a few delicious digs don’t add up to a movie. Despite Martin’s beauty and verve, Wiazemsky remains on the outside of her own story. The career and the life of this granddaughter of novelist and ...

As he announced with The Artist, writer-director Michel Hazanavicius makes movies about movies. So it was nearly inevitable that he would someday burlesque the work of Jean-Luc Godard, the ...