Le Petit Soldat (Criterion Collection) (1963) on Blu-ray

Actor: Various
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Drama
Year: 1963
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 88
Released: 10
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc/Special Features: Subtitled,blu-ray
Language: French
Subtitles : Yes

DESCRIPTION:

Before his convention-shattering debut, Breathless, had even premiered, Jean-Luc Godard leapt into the making of his second feature, a thriller that would tackle the most controversial subject in France: the use of torture in the Algerian War. Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor) is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement. Anna Karina (in her first collaboration with Godard, whose camera is visibly besotted with her) is beguiling as the mysterious woman with whom Forestier becomes infatuated. Banned for two and a half years by French censors for it's depiction of brutal tactics on the part of the French government and the Algerian fighters alike, Le petit soldat finds the young Godard already retooling cinema as a vehicle for existential inquiry, political argument, and ephemeral portraiture in other words, as a medium for delivering truth twenty-four times per second.