[Atlantic Friend]

Well, everybody has to sign up one day, I suppose.

Frankly, I don't see why the GOP should feel threatened by Fahrenheit 9/11. I've seen the movie last week-end in Western France, and it's so heavy-handed you must already be an anti-Bush zealot to find food for thought in this flick. Man, Moore just stops short of criticizing President Bush's ties ! If that is what passes for clever political analysis, the Democrats have some problems facing them...

They interviewed some French congressmen who went to the premiere in Paris, and one of them, Pierre Lellouche, said this was pure propaganda and distorted facts. Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard even compared Moore to Goebbels, and said Moore was very wrong to try to portray President Bush as an idiot. That struck me, because Godard is usually seen as a leftist.

[SuziQ]

Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard even compared Moore to Goebbels, and said Moore was very wrong to try to portray President Bush as an idiot. That struck me, because Godard is usually seen as a leftist.

I guess Goddard understands that folks should not mis-underestimate President Bush.

[FeliciaCat]

"They interviewed some French congressmen who went to the premiere in Paris, and one of them, Pierre Lellouche, said this was pure propaganda and distorted facts. Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard even compared Moore to Goebbels, and said Moore was very wrong to try to portray President Bush as an idiot. That struck me, because Godard is usually seen as a leftist."

Hi Atlantic Friend -

Interesting post..with all the French bashing (some of it justified) its nice to hear this.... Of course do you think ANY of the mainstream American press will EVER print these quotes??? Of course not.

[muleskinner]

They interviewed some French congressmen who went to the premiere in Paris, and one of them, Pierre Lellouche, said this was pure propaganda and distorted facts. Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard even compared Moore to Goebbels, and said Moore was very wrong to try to portray President Bush as an idiot. That struck me, because Godard is usually seen as a leftist.

If this movie got a (the) Palm D'Or Award, it must have been slim pickin's at Cannes. Too bad there wasn't a new movie from Jerry Lewis.

Godard comparing Moore to Goebbels? Excellent.

[RightWingAtheist]

Godard is (or at least was) an avowed Marxist who pretty much cinematically self-destructed when he decided to abandon formal narrative in favour of inscreasingly strident polemic. So he knows of what he speaks.

Is Pierre Lellouche any relation to the great director Claude Lelouch? The names are spelt differently, but both men are Jewish, and from North African backgrounds, so there may simply be variations in the family name.