Passion (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #31.1 extract: Passion (1982)

Simply tedious, Godard's Passion is an emotionless and distant rumination on what it means to work, to love, to love your work and to work for love. So, in a way, this narrative is just a drab mouth piece for Marxist ideology with strokes of existentialism. 

This only comes through thanks to repetitious aphorisms and Godard's experimental making of film that accompanies this - which reduces further the purpose of this film.
Though I didn't understand the intertextual references to paintings with the numerous 'tableaux vivants' (living paintings), these sequences were the most affecting part of Passion with Godard capturing the lines and textures of bodies beautifully in the camera--though not with his mise en scène as the composition is never evocative--and with much support from music. 

All in all, this really didn't speak to me and I can't recommend it.