If you are suffering watching Breathless and Pierrot le fou, I feel a bit sad for you.

I'm not, but for some of his movies it's obviously part of the project.

His films take apart the mannerisms of film and French society. anti-intellectual shots at him are only a lost opportunity to know a moving, meaningful artist

In fact it's the opposite: I'm a staunch intellectual, snob Frenchman. I can't stand brain-damaged Hollywood entertainment (I'd rather stand 2 hours under the rain than watching any Avengers movie). The cultural gap may require time and effort to cross to be able to appreciate Godard (or Bergman, or Rohmer, ...) when you're into mass culture.

LOL, this reminded me of Gene Hackman's character in Night Moves on Rohmer:

https://vimeo.com/8688973

attempt to scramble to the top of some crumbled European high-cultural ground to throw stones at low culture is just as dumb as being dismissive of Godard

but, that said, i was responding to the parent comment and accidentally got nested under you