Jean-Luc Godard VS Woody Allen Unique surgery. It is written only for fans of Godard and Woody together and at the same time.
Both Godard and Allen are quite open to the public, so you can find a much more interesting interview with each of them separately.
And to the pure genre of documentary interview, I can not diagnose this short experiment.
The paradox is that the interview genre cannot flow between two geniuses. Such an interview inevitably ends not even with dialogue, but rather with creative exchange. That is, before our eyes there is a living scientific and cultural historical phenomenal process (whatever pathos you may hear in my words).
Both Godard and Allen are often very intelligent, ironic, philosophical, intellectual, individual and honest. Both directors are still (glory to cinema!) creators of subgenres of author's cinema. Both create similar subgenres, only Godard started a little early (as mentioned in the interview), and Allen is a little more ridiculous. Both with bald hair, both wearing glasses, both extremely critically look at the world through the lenses of their hemispheres. Both are very similar to each other.
Godard often experimented with the genre of interviews in his films. For example, he placed as a background for the next film-manifesto American group Rolling Stones. Among other photos in the “interview” we can see a picture with Brigitte Bardot from the yearrovsky “Contempt” (in the plot of which American and French artists argue against the Greek background at the expense of a professional translator). Allen recalls the conformist Zelig, who is extremely quickly influenced by external opponents.
Collisions of nerve-intellectual impulses of geniuses have an extremely beneficial effect on the entire noosphere of our planet. And here they are!
Both Allen and Godard on the scales of perception of the audience Themis must be equal, otherwise there may be a distorted perception of cinema-reality, I think. Even the effect of viewer denial of one or both is possible!
On the other hand, is it possible to compare two stars without professional equipment and without a scalpel? Very difficult.
Therefore, I am inclined only to warn about the extreme specificity of this product. I hope the science will do more to diagnose it.