Jean-Luc Godard's HELAS POUR MOI (released in France in 1993 and in the US in 1994), is one of the director's most challenging ventures to date. Although this story of a married couple's search for faith is arguably overloaded with Godardian erudition--its literary, cinematic, and
political references overwhelm the narrative--it succeeds as an intellectual provocation, even if it is far from "entertaining" in any traditional sense.
Publisher Max Mercure (Jean-Louis Loca) visits a rural town in present-day Switzerland to investigate a strange story he has heard about the Donnadieus, a local couple. From the townspeople, he learns that Rachel Donnadieu (Laurence...
Released:
1993
Rated:
NR
Length:
85 mins