PARIS—With greater than a billion viewers tuning in from around the globe solely to seek out themselves watching a panel of French movie students and significant theorists, the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics started Friday with a tedious 45-minute dialogue of Jean-Luc Godard’s early works. “We’re half an hour in, and so they’ve nonetheless solely made it to Masculin Féminin,” mentioned three-time Olympic medalist Lebron James, talking for almost all of the ten,500 athletes in attendance, who visibly struggled to remain awake and reportedly discovered the lecture on how Godard influenced the French New Wave as each critic and filmmaker to be excruciatingly remedial. “I hoped for one thing a bit of extra thrilling and nuanced, however the folks on this stage have performed little greater than set up Godard’s personal glib existentialism because the impetus for the shortage of narrative in Breathless. Possibly it’s a cultural factor, however I don’t really feel they’ve a lot so as to add to the dialog across the nostalgic and fashionable really feel of his brief works. I did just like the synchronized lighting of the cigarettes, although.” At press time, the Worldwide Olympic Committee reportedly issued quite a few fines after an arcane squabble about mise en scène in Le Petit Soldat broke out between Italy and Belarus.
