Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Labyrinthine
- Violence
- Mild
- intellectual
- disorienting
- provocative
- focused arthouse viewing
- film study
What critics said
Critics broadly regard the film as a visually thrilling, formally audacious, and intellectually challenging late-period Godard work whose inscrutability is inseparable from its achievement.
What sets it apart
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The 3D imagery uses separated shots and visual planes to question how images are assembled and perceived.
The film repeats and transforms its initial relationship scenario while moving from human action toward metaphor.
The lovers’ arguments, the title’s farewell to language, and the movement toward barking and infant cries foreground communication’s limits.
Godard applies dazzling 3D experimentation and cinematic self-reflexivity to themes central to his longstanding practice.
Films like Goodbye to Language, and why
Weekend
radical French New Wave experimentation, fragmented narrative, and intellectual play with cinema and language
Film Socialisme
essayistic montage, political-philosophical provocation, and formally disruptive late-period Godard style
The Color of Pomegranates
poetic relationship drama shaped by fractured dialogue, visual experimentation, and modernist cinematic language
Movie Details
- Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Release Date
- 2014-05-28
- Runtime
- 69 min
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 (196)
Cast
- Jessica Erickson
- Héloïse Godet
- Zoé Bruneau
- Kamel Abdeli
- Richard Chevallier
- Alexandre Païta
- Christian Gregori
- Marie Ruchat
- Jeremy Zampatti
- Jean-Luc Godard
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Kino Film Collection
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Goodbye to Language about?
- Jean-Luc Godard turns a volatile love triangle, a wandering dog, and fractured speech into a dazzling 3D meditation on perception and the limits of cinematic language.
- What is Goodbye to Language like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Goodbye to Language as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as labyrinthine.
- Is Goodbye to Language violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Goodbye to Language as mild.
- What did critics think of Goodbye to Language?
- Critics broadly regard the film as a visually thrilling, formally audacious, and intellectually challenging late-period Godard work whose inscrutability is inseparable from its achievement.
- Which films are like Goodbye to Language?
- Films with a similar feel include Weekend, Film Socialisme, and The Color of Pomegranates.
- How long is Goodbye to Language?
- Goodbye to Language runs 69 minutes.
- Where can I watch Goodbye to Language?
- In United States, Goodbye to Language streams on Kino Film Collection.
