Detective

It's rare that one of French director Jean-Luc Godard's movies actually aims to entertain but Detective does, being a jokey movie about detective movies in which various characters try to solve a murder committed in a once-luxury Paris hotel two years earlier. The plot sprouts myriad subplots and Godard dedicates the picture to Clint Eastwood, John Cassavetes and cult 1940s director Edgar G Ulmer because, well, why not? The cast of newish things Nathalie Baye and Johnny Hallyday pleased the contemporary audience, while New Wave icons like Claude Brasseur and Jean-Pierre Léaud bring nostalgia to the party.