''Redoubtable'' (), released in the United States as ''Godard Mon Amour'', is a 2017 French

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film written and directed by

Michel Hazanavicius Michel Hazanavicius ( ; born 29 March 1967) is a French film director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. He is best known for his 2011 film, ''The Artist (film), The Artist'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 84th Academy Aw ...

about the affair of filmmaker

Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as ...

with actress

Anne Wiazemsky Anne Wiazemsky (14 May 1947 – 5 October 2017) was a French actress and novelist. She made her cinema debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's '' Au hasard Balthazar'' (1966). A year later she married the di ...

in the late 1960s, during the making of his film ''

La Chinoise ''La Chinoise, ou plutôt à la Chinoise: un film en train de se faire'' (), commonly referred to simply as ''La Chinoise'', is a 1967 French political docufiction film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard about a group of young Maoist activis ...

'' (1967). It was selected to compete for the

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in the main competition section at the

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Cast

Louis Garrel Louis Garrel (born 14 June 1983) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his starring role in ''The Dreamers (2003 film), The Dreamers'', directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Stacy Martin Stacy Martin (born 20 March 1990) is a French actress. Her breakthrough role was playing Joe as a young woman in Lars von Trier's 2013 drama film '' Nymphomaniac''. She is a frequent collaborator with Brady Corbet, having appeared in his films ...

Bérénice Bejo Bérénice Bejo (; born 7 July 1976) is a French-Argentine actress best known for playing Christiana in '' A Knight's Tale'' (2001) and Peppy Miller in '' The Artist'' (2011). Her work in the latter earned her a nomination for the Academy Award ...

Michèle Rosier Michèle Rosier (; born Michèle Raudnitz, 3 June 1929 – 2 April 2017) was a French fashion journalist and designer who founded the V de V sportswear label. In addition to this, she worked as a film director and screenwriter since 1973. Early ...

* Micha Lescot as Jean-Pierre Bamberger *

Grégory Gadebois Grégory Gadebois (born 24 July 1976) is a French actor. Career Before his career as an actor begin, he worked as a mover. He studied at the CNSAD in the class of Catherine Hiegel and Dominique Valadié. He was a member of the Comédie-França ...

as Michel Cournot *

Guido Caprino Guido Caprino (born 3 January 1974) is an Italian stage, film and television actor. Life and career Born in Taormina, Caprino grew up in Nizza di Sicilia and graduated as a dental technician in Messina. He then moved to Milan Milan ( , ...

Bernardo Bertolucci Bernardo Bertolucci ( ; ; 16 March 1941 – 26 November 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years. Considered one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, Bertolucci's work achieved inte ...

* Quentin Dolmaire as Paul

Reception

On the

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website

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, 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

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

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