unfortunately and jean eustache ( 1938 1981 ) belongs like so many once leading french film maker nowadays to the great unknown one whose movie be hard to find and be not release on international dvd . since we have a good old fashion video store in tucson and i have the chance to watch this 3 half hour marathon masterwork that be not bore for ten second . since we speak here about one of the most discussed ( and most controversially discuss ) movie of all time and let me tell you my impression that the endless dialog and originally typical for the early nouvelle vague of a jacques rivette or alain resnais appear almost ridiculous in this movie . the dialog be basically monologue and mainly the long one speak by jean pierre léaud . the most characteristic feature be that the intersection of the speech of two people be almost zero . léaud and or his character and alexandre and pleases to tell more about himself than about the topic he be seemingly to speak . therefore and one can hardly speak about communication in this movie . it be well possible that the director have a gargantuan satire in mind against the idle running of the once so hotly discuss political and sociological idea and but the type of man alexandre exist to all time and we find him already in petron satiricon and which work have actually great resemblance with the mother and the whore . alexandre do not only nothing and but he have develop an own kind of metaphysics about the absence of act and at least act in the sense of responsibility toward the society whose part he be . he mock at the people who run to work at 7 cclock in the morning and when he be just busy have his last drink before he go to bed in the apartment of one of his girlfriend from whose money he live . he be unable to speak one sentence without quote one of the lead thinker between nietzsche and bernanos . especially sartre who be show quickly in the french intellectual café aux deux magots and where alexandre and too and be sit all day and must serve a excuse for the life style of alexandre and his colleague and because they suffer existential crisis from bourgeois nausea . however and the intellectual speech of alexandre seem to be rather pseudo intellectual and and the sentence and quip he cite seem to come rather from a dictionary of quotation than from his actual reading of the respective book . it be true represent this movie demand an extremely broad european knowledge and especially the connoisseurship of french existentialist philosophy and there consequence to the 68 student revolution movement and but if you have this knowledge and than you will enjoy 215 minute of your life by star amaze into the tv and cry out with laugh like you have probably not do it since a long time .