If you love Godard's work (which I do), you'll love this final work of his. It's typical of Godard's late period, aka from In Praise of Love through The Image Book. There is a deep sadness that penetrates these later works of Godard, and Phony Wars is no exception. It's very rueful, sad, elegiac, and often profound. In other words, Godard still had it at the end. The film is only 20 minutes long, it's mostly voice over and stills (some early scenes have no sound at all), yet it's mesmerizing and completely Godarian. It's showing in cinemas with the documentary Godard Cinema. You owe it to yourself to see this final work by one of the great masters of cinema, and to see it in a cinema. Even at 92, Godard had lost of his cinematic genius.
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