Histoire(s) du Cinéma: The Signs Among Us (EOTWS)

Histoire(s) du Cinéma x8 extract: The Signs Among Us (1998)

Ending with abruptness and ambiguity, Histoire(s) du Cinéma concludes that cinema warns us of something - an end maybe - but that we reject it on such grounds. Godard suggests this with a parallel to a novel of Ramuz from which the title, The Signs Among Us, was apparently taken before exploring a myriad of non-sequiturs. I can't muster a summary of Godard's perspective here as nothing comes through his opaque frames. Thus, Histoire(s) du Cinéma ends as a piece of anti-cinema about cinema and history as expression of one another that, it seems, no one - apart from Godard and maybe the filmmakers he likes - knows how to approach correctly. 

With the final exasperating minutes of "Godard's magnum opus" (which seems to put the moronic in oxymoronic) I can then only think of myself to be free. I nonetheless hold no regrets.