Redoubtable (film)

Redoubtable (French: Le Redoutable), released in the United States as Godard Mon Amour, is a 2017 French biographical comedy-drama film written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius about the affair of filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard with actress Anne Wiazemsky in the late 1960s, during the making of his film La Chinoise (1967). It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.^[3][4]

Redoubtable
Theatrical release poster
French	Le Redoutable
Directed by	Michel Hazanavicius
Screenplay by	Michel Hazanavicius
Based on	Un an après by Anne Wiazemsky
Produced by	Florence Gastaud Michel Hazanavicius Riad Sattouf
Starring	Louis Garrel Stacy Martin
Cinematography	Guillaume Schiffman
Edited by	Anne-Sophie Bion Michel Hazanavicius
Production companies	Les Compagnons du Cinéma La Classe Américaine France 3 Cinéma StudioCanal
Distributed by	StudioCanal
Release dates	21 May 2017 (2017-05-21) (Cannes) 13 September 2017 (2017-09-13) (France)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$12.2 million[1]
Box office	$1.3 million[2]

Cast

• Louis Garrel as Jean-Luc Godard
• Stacy Martin as Anne Wiazemsky
• Bérénice Bejo as Michèle Rosier
• Micha Lescot as Jean-Pierre Bamberger
• Grégory Gadebois as Michel Cournot
• Guido Caprino as Bernardo Bertolucci
• Quentin Dolmaire as Paul

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 54% based on 89 reviews, and an average rating of 5.8/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Godard Mon Amour imagines a chapter from Jean-Luc Godard's life with no shortage of whimsy, but lacks its subject's essential inspiration."^[5] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[6]