I shan’t spoil the witty way the movie’s newscast-derived title — and the catchphrase “Such was life aboard the Redoubtable” — comes into play and furnishes a perfect finish.

When it was announced that the Cannes Film Festival would show “Redoubtable,” a biographical drama about Jean-Luc Godard written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius (“The Artist”), and ...

Hazanavicius won Oscars for The Artist but Redoubtable is unlikely to repeat the feat. It’s a witty but determinedly superficial affair that rarely rises above the level of pastiche. As a ...

Michel Hazanavicius won Oscars for The Artist, his witty homage to silent-era Hollywood. Redoubtable likewise recreates a vintage movie milieu, 1960s France, though Hazanavicius’s affection for ...

Adapted from Anne Wiazemsky’s memoir Un an Après (one year later), Redoubtable charters the actress’s relationship with director Jean-Luc Godard at the height of his political activism during ...

There’s a certain iconoclastic glee in how Redoubtable presents one of the monstres sacrés of French culture as at best an irritant, at medium a total bellend, and at worst a philotyrannical ...

The redoubtable Simon Van Booy has performed another small literary miracle. In fact, smallness matters exceptionally in his new novel. Its protagonist — rather, its supporting actor — is a mouse.