Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

gavin6942 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.The situation in Algeria and the denunciation of the use of torture by both sides are the main themes of the movie. This led to the film being banned for three years in France.I love how huge the Algeria-France situation looms in French cinema. Do most Americans know that France had a war going on there? Probably not. And yet, it was something the movie directors and artists were very conscious of. I suspect that French film was stronger on the Algerian issue than American films were on Vietnam, at least initially.

Christopher Culver Shot in 1960, but banned until 1963 due to its frank treatment of French torture of Algerian separatists, Jean-Luc Godard's LE PETIT SOLDAT is a political thriller mixed with a love story. Bruno (Michel Subor) is a French agent in Geneva, fighting a secret war against Arab spies supporting the Algerian cause. Tired of his superiors' demands that he assassinate another agent to prove his loyalty, he dreams of escaping to Brazil with the lovely Danish young lady Veronica (Anna Karina). Will they make it or not? I am assuming that anyone who is considering this film has already seen Godard's first film Breathless. Love it or hate it, it's a 20th-century classic and something any film buff should see. Godard's second film here initially seems to follow the same plot, where a man playing a deadly game of cat and mouse flirts with a woman who is oblivious to the danger he's in, and there are some gratuitous jump cuts too. However, LE PETIT SOLDAT has some twists and turns in its action and is no retread of its predecessor. Furthermore, the editing is tighter and the mise-en-scène more powerful; already one feels that Goddard has matured to the level of his following films of the 1960s.To audiences half a century later, when the Algerian War is slowly forgotten even by the French, this may not seem a very in-your-face political commentary. However, Godard does include a few bitter references to World War II, suggesting that the same forces who righteously held out against Hitler only fifteen years before are now the aggressors against their colonial territory. While this is a less-talked-about Godard film, for me at least it has proved more thought-provoking than BREATHLESS, raising moral questions that remain relevant in Europe today, and featuring some shocking plot developments.Karina's role in this film is a very interesting one. The young Danish beauty spoke only rudimentary French, so Godard gave her a minimum of lines. For the most part, she is a mere Barbie doll, a symbol of Bruno's infatuation. As if underline that Karina is serving only as a delight for the eye, Godard has Bruno photograph her for several minutes while she stands in various poses. As Godard's subsequent films revealed, Karina wasn't just looks, she had considerable talent as an actress, but her part here does not allow that to come through.

Sindre Kaspersen French-Swiss screenwriter and director Jean-Luc Godard's second feature film which was banned in France 1960 due to it's depictions of terrorism and released in 1963, tells a fictional story set during the Algerian War in Genève, Switzerland 1958 where Bruno Forestier, a 26-year-old member of an anti-terrorist unit and deserter falls in love with a Russian woman named Veronica.Jean-Luc Godard's linear narrative structure and brilliant direction creates good pace in this riveting Film-noir which is told through the main character's voice-over narration and explores themes such as terrorism, politics, ideals, war, life, love and death. Characteristically Jean-Luc Godard makes references to numerous directors, writers and composers while he presents his personal views through the characters political, cinematic and existentialistic dialog. Michel Subor and Anna Karina gives solid acting performances and the scenes they share which are substantiated by the camera movements and the light-setting are the most enthralling moments in this ardent piece of cinema history.

portaeporta I find accidentally on web at www.artmovies.tk Le petit soldat online watching. enjoy it this wonderful film. I find this film it's maybe the best example what could be a film as a artistic act, more than only a narrative illustration of a story. We know a lot of movies maker who enjoy it a lot of approach but in real there films are mostly very conventional and also have a "psychologicall " content. But the realization of the film it's not psychological. Trouffaut, Antonioni and Lynch are the best example for movie maker who wan to made really art but there vision of art are not up to date. We like the novel vogue but we try to realization what are inside of the formulation of that. We know very well Jean Pierre Mellvile with his criminal movies. he never have the intention to made a art movie. but he do it because he was or inside of his movie we can recognize the obsession of a unreal world, and he show us this world. Even if this world is a puberty boy world it is fascinating to see how consequent he show us this world.