Jean-Luc Godard has never been one to shy away from a paradox. He might well appreciate the irony that his form-busting use of 3D in “Goodbye to Language” — the very element that has made this by far his most passionately embraced work in years — is precisely what could keep the film from reaching the wider audience it deserves. There are two equally stubborn realities at work here: (1) Relatively few arthouse exhibitors are equipped to screen movies in the stereoscopic format, and (2) “Goodbye to Language,” an intoxicating swirl of deep-focus imagery and eye-popping, mind-bending visual layers, would lose much of its potency if stripped of that format. This is a movie that demands to be seen in 3D or not at all.-Variety And... In “Goodbye to Language,” sensation is all but inseparable from meaning, and the language to which the title seems to be bidding adieu is nothing less than the traditional language of cinema as we know it. For those who persist in questioning what the film is about — and even after two viewings, I don’t blame them — I’d respond that, on the simplest level, it’s about one artist’s determination to subvert the ways in which our eyes, ears and minds have been conditioned to receive movies. And given how essential the 3D is to the film’s impact, it’s no surprise that Godard has insisted that it be exhibited only in that format.-Variety. Goodbye to Langauge 3D Saturday & Sunday 1:10 4:55 Tuesday thru Thursday 1:10, 4:55
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