Your mission is to write 1,500 word on a Jean-Luc Godard retrospective without lapsing into pretentiousness. This piece almost makes it, then trips up at the end:
Viewed in this light, "Travel(s)" may be the most demanding and audacious film of Mr. Godard's career, possibly the most hermetic and definitely the most chaotic. Like much of his late work, it can be read as an elegy for the history of cinema and the cinema of history. However it began, it ended as a characteristic act of opposition.
