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The Carabineers
The Carabineers (French: Les Carabiniers) (1963) was the fifth narrative feature film by French filmmaker Jean-
Luc Godard.

Contents
Plot
Critical responses
In popular culture
References
External links

Plot
Les Carabiniers (1963) that the tells the story of two poor men called to serve in battle, lured by promises of the
world's riches. Ulysses (Marino Mase) and Michelangelo (Albert Juross) receive letters from the king of their fictional
country that allow them to have complete freedom from consequence while fighting in the war, in return for anything
they desire—swimming pools, Maseratis, women—at the enemy's expense.

Their wives, Venus and Cleopatra (Catherine Ribeiro and Genevieve Galea) encourage them to fight when they hear
about the riches. They leave and cross the battlefields and villages, destroying and pillaging as they wish. The pair's
exploits are recounted through postcards sent to their wives, telling tales of the horrors of battle. The previously
idealistic idea that the men have of war disintegrates, as they are still poor and now wounded. They return home with a
suitcase full of postcards of the splendors of the world that they have fought for, and are told by army officials that they
must wait until the war ends to receive their pay.

One day, the sky explodes with sparks, and the couples race into town, believing that the war has ended. Ulysses and
Michelangelo are informed by their superiors that their king has lost the war, and that all of the war criminals must be
punished. The two men are then shot for their crimes.

Critical responses
Writing about the film in Harpers Magazine in 1969, the critic Pauline Kael declared it, "hell to watch for the first
hour...exciting to think about after because its one good sequence, the long picture-postcard sequence near the end, is
so incredible and so brilliantly prolonged. The picture has been crawling and stumbling along and then it climbs a high
wire and walks it and keeps walking it until we're almost dizzy from admiration. The tight rope is rarely stretched so
high in movies..." [1]

In popular culture

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The renowned author and critic Susan Sontag referenced the film in her 1977 collection of essays On Photography.
With respect to the "two sluggish lumpen-peasants" returning home bearing postcards of the treasures of the world
instead of tangible treasure, Sontag noted that "Godard's gag vividly parodies the equivocal magic of the photographic
image." [2]

References
1. Pauline Kael, writing in her essay "Trash, Art, and the Movies" from Harpers Magazine, February 1969, reprinted
in her collection Going Steady ISBN 0-7145-2976-1
2. Sontag, Susan (1977) "On Photography", Penguin, London

External links
Les Carabiniers (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056905/) on IMDb

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