Redoubtable (film)

Redoubtable, 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. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

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." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".