Soft and Hard

An intimate home video in most of its details and ambience – taped in and around Godard and Miéville’s home in rural Switzerland and built around their normal daily activities – Soft and Hard gradually turns into a discussion of and meditation on the differences between TV/video (“soft”) and film (“hard”). The transition from domestic documentary to epistemological investigation is accomplished so subtly, on so many different fronts, that one can’t always pinpoint when and where it takes place.

Jonathan Rozenbaum, The Chicago Reader, November 17th 1995