One must confront vague ideas with clear images.
A Godard at his most daring, at his most brazen, a step away from his peak, if not already, a Godard as a poet, but an objective one, who criticizes everything he sees, even his own thinking, because, as the film indicates, "Maoism helps us think about everything objectively," or "only by seeing all angles, the shape of the subject, its points of illumination, and our own perspective can we understand the…