Scenario du Film 'Passion' (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #31.1 extract: Scenario du Film 'Passion' (1982)

Having seen Godard's Passion, I can appreciate this as supporting material - and in a way, I think this is more substantial than the film itself 

However, this is primarily evidence for Godard's focus on form and style. Godard is very clearly far from stupid, but he lacks character and heart. More often than not, Godard feels like a shell that consumes art, philosophy and cinema, but hasn't got anything to really provide to the forms. Of course he is an important auteur of the New Wave who brought (somewhat) new grammar to the fore - and he continues to do this to this day. However, Godard merely presents possibility - which is, in a way, something he consciously aims to do. It is a shame, nonetheless, that Godard is only potential; that his intellect doesn't produce substantial art - or, at the least, it produces art that I see very little purpose in consuming as more than a theoretical and intellectual venture.