Germany Year 90 Nine Zero

GERMANY YEAR 90 NINE ZERO, Jean-Luc Godard's hour-long take on the end of the Cold War, is, as one might expect from this legendary French filmmaker, a wry, allusive meditation on world politics and cinema. Taking its title from GERMANY YEAR ZERO, Roberto Rossellini's 1947 neorealist drama of post-World War II Berlin, Godard's film is less savage than that earlier classic, emerging instead as something of a companion piece to his own 1965 movie ALPHAVILLE, complete with hard-boiled private eye character Lemmy Caution, played as before by Eddie Constantine.

"The past isn't dead, it isn't even passed yet," Godard once observed, and GERMANY YEAR 90 NINE ZERO explor...