"Opération 'Béton'" or "Operation Concrete" is a Swiss French-language short film from 1958, so it will soon have it's 60th anniversary. It runs for 16.5 minutes and I am sure this would be entirely unknown today if this wasn't a very early work by successful French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. He was not even 30 when he wrote, directed and narrated this one. However, even if it may be somewhat informative, i am sure that the subject won't appeal to anybody other than construction workers or engineers. It's really like watching a random documentary about a building constructed next to you. And the black-and-white is not helping either. It's not a bad film by any means, it's just only relevant to a very tiny group of people. That's why I think everybody else should certainly skip it, but Godard was still pretty inexperienced at that point, so I will forgive him.
Review of Operation Concrete
