In his excessive eclecticism, the total filmmaker Godard is everything - thus also a Lacanian, an analyst of love with a sense of mirroring and entanglements, which in his system refer back to something else, something greater. Despite its allusive title, NOUVELLE VAGUE is not a recapitulation of recent film history (with the passive-aggressive Alain Delon in the leading role), but a tale of the expulsion from paradise and the return of the savior, of man and woman, of Tristan and Isolde, of reincarnations of words and images hidden beneath the layers of the web of thought. Acta est fabula.

Print from the collection of Kino im Blauen Salon (HfG KA)