Hail Mary
Hail Mary

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In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must school Joseph to accept Mary's pregnancy, while Mary comes to terms with God's plan through meditations that are sometimes angry and usually punctuated by elemental images of the sun, moon, clouds, flowers, and water. Godard intercuts a brief parallel story of Eva and her nameless l... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Hail Mary:

Myriem Roussel
Thierry Rode
Philippe Lacoste
Manon Andersen
Malachi Jara Kohan
Juliette Binoche

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In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must school Joseph to accept Mary's pregnancy, while Mary comes to terms with God's plan through meditations that are sometimes angry and usually punctuated by elemental images of the sun, moon, clouds, flowers, and water. Godard intercuts a brief parallel story of Eva and her nameless lover; their adulterous affair, rife with philosophical discussions, leads nowhere.

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Slant Magazine - 10/10 by Fernando F. CroceHail Mary is limpid, serene, and, for all the pubic hair on display, glowingly chaste.
The Dissolve - 7/10 by Noel Murray[S]een alongside Godard's other films, Hail Mary isn't that shocking. It's a film of great sensitivity and yearning[.]
Filmcritic.com - 4/10 by Christopher Nullfascinating stuff that is beautifully photographed
Chicago Sun-Times - 4/10 by Roger EbertThe film is not very good. People who have not seen a lot of films by Godard will find it especially slow-moving.
Chicago Reader - 4/10 by Dave KehrNo longer content with a materialist analysis of the state of the world, he's attempting here to film the intangible.
User Review - 10/10 by Dee DMyriem. I saw your Wonderful Potrayal of the Virgin Mother. It was a beautiful, & thought provoking Film-Dee O' Donoghue, now living in the Washington, DC area, originally from Cork City, Ireland. Myriem if you are out there somwhere....I just wanted to say "Hello again" after many many years. Anne Lives near me in Bethesda, MD. USA. Brian still lives in Cork City happily. Mum & Dad, sadly Died in 2001, a very tough year for all of my Family:( better now for all of us:) A bientot Myriem, Dee:)
User Review - 10/10 by Pavandeep SI seriously admire Godard for his persistence. His belief that films can be something totally yours is almost a dangerous idea. To put your own mind into it, in all its form is just fantastic. His absolute intellectualism and his need for questioning is clearer watching more of his films as they show a mind simply growing, just more depressed and yet at times more delightful. It's aging in celluloid.
User Review - 10/10 by Deering Rmy favorite movie for so many strange reasons. saul bass said design is thinking made visual. fool's a thinker.
User Review - 10/10 by Adam CA funny thing: I realized I forgot my cellphone in the car during the middle of the movie, and went out to get it, missing about seven minutes, and it made NO DIFFERENCE in my comprehension of the film. Because, largely, the film is incomprehensible on the first viewing. I say this having only seen it once. Godard has basically broken cinema down completely, and only the suggestion of narrative and continuity remains. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, serves as a vehicle for abstract philosophy--film as pure thought, rather than storytelling. If this sounds at all interesting, then watch it, but if not, you'd best just avoid it like the plague.
User Review - 10/10 by Jesse L(VHS) (First Viewing, 16th Godard film) What particularly interested me going into [b]Hail Mary[/b] was to see how Jean-Luc Godard would handle intensely religious subject matter. Protested by many and condemned by the Pope on its initial release, [b]Hail Mary[/b] develops an updated version of the Virgin Birth that has proved to be one of the most controversial films in Godard's career. Marie (Myriem Roussel) is a seemingly normal teenage girl- she plays on the school basketball team and has a serious boyfriend, a taxi driver named Joseph (Thierry Rode). One night, while working her family's gas station, she receives a visit from an angel (who arrives by jet plane and rides in Joseph's taxi) who informs her she's going to bear the Son of God. When she does end up pregnant nobody believes that she could possibly be a virgin (suspecting it Joseph's child), until her doctor confirms it. What was initially perceived as being sacrilegious is in fact an occasionally poignant attempt to humanize Mary, who struggles with her massive burden, the social stigma it creates, and the problem it presents in her relationship with Joseph. Initially crushed, Joseph eventually accepts the reality of the situation and resigns himself to marrying a woman who he will never be able to know in an intimate way. During the scene where Joseph tells Marie that he will follow through in his plans to marry her, he asks her if he could see her body just once. He won't touch, but just wants one look. It's heartbreaking, and it sheds a light on one angle of the Biblical story that is never given much thought to: the sacrifices Joseph had to endure in being the earthly father of Christ. At the same time, I was rather surprised to find that Godard holds to the traditional Roman Catholic view of Mary's perpetual virginity. This was particularly surprising since some recent reading on the subject revealed that Godard was raised a Protestant (apparently the Godards was/are one of the most prominent Protestant families in France), which holds a very different view on the subject (Mary supposedly had several children after Jesus). For that reason I'm curious to know why Godard sticks predominantly to the Catholic tradition in regards to Mary's story. As my friend Derek has commented before, [b]Hail Mary[/b] is a strikingly warm film, especially when compared with the rest of Godard's post-60's output. It's not quite as fragmented as many of his later films, and easier to follow (though the brief inclusion of an unrelated student/professor affair is baffling). One of the major reasons for the initial outrage was [b]Hail Mary[/b]'s use of nudity- but it is distinctly non-erotic in nature, and is more reminiscent of Renaissance art than of pornography, which it was dismissed as being. In his review, which was written in the form of a letter to a major Chicago Bishop, Roger Ebert says that it was those who protested (the religious) would probably find the film most interesting. It's a valid and correct statement, as the film is an interesting take on one of humanity's most famous stories. [b]Hail Mary[/b] might not be a particularly good film, and certainly nowhere near one of Godard's best, but its subject matter makes it, in my opinion, a particularly fascinating film.

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