Le Chant du Styrène is fourteen months of work for a film lasting fourteen minutes about plastics. It is also a commentary by Raymond Queneau which makes each image Tashlinesque by introducing the famous dislocation dear to Renoir. And the result is there, in CinemaScope and color […]: some one hundred shots so harmoniously welded to each other that they give the extraordinary feeling of being one long sequence shot, a single, Jupiterian tracking shot whose wonderful phrasing is not without its echoes of the great cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Jean-Luc Godard, in “Cahiers du cinéma”, n. 92, 1959 (translated by Tom Milne, in Godard on Godard)