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Title: Excellent Godard clips - buy 'Vivre Sa Vie' instead.
Review: the heroine's search for a personal identity takes the form of striking between opposites - girl/boy, mother/father, film/reality, country/city, Judaism/Christianity, conformity/individuality. This is a rites-of-passage movie as Portrait of the Filmmaker as a Young Woman, with Hanna taking inspiration from the like-sounding Anna in 'Vivre Sa Vie' (and who was also inspired by a great film), while storing up, Wordsworth-like, artistic inspiration from Godard. Pool's hackneyed filmmaking puts Godard's masterpiece in relief, and makes it seem even more miraculous.
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