Directed by:
Jean-Luc GodardScreenplay:
Jean-Luc GodardCinematography:
Raoul CoutardCast:
Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Jean-Luc Godard, Yves Beneyton, Claude Miller, Juliet Berto, Marie Cardinal, Raoul Lévy, Christophe Bourseiller (more)VOD (3)
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In 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle), Jean-Luc Godard beckons us ever closer, whispering in our ears as narrator. About what? Money, sex, fashion, the city, love, language, war: in a word, everything. Among the legendary French filmmaker’s finest achievements, the film takes as its ostensible subject the daily life of Juliette Janson (Marina Vlady), a housewife from the Paris suburbs who prostitutes herself for extra money. Yet this is only a template for Godard to spin off into provocative philosophical tangents and gorgeous images. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her is perhaps Godard’s most revelatory look at consumer culture, shot in ravishing widescreen color by Raoul Coutard. (Criterion)
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There is nothing easier than living with the idea of taking everything around you for granted. So, what if a person starts thinking about all of this? What if the automated processes start to falter, what if the everyday reproduction of our social (and production) relationships starts to stumble? Well, nothing, I'll light a cigarette. Or I'll watch TV - thanks to modernization, everyone can afford it (even those who can't afford LSD). Advertising dreams are also dreams, and it's easy to forget things when you have them. Then a person doesn't even notice that their house is just another box of laundry detergent... The traditionally Godard-like sociological/ethnographic view of the film's protagonists, determined by the environment in which they live (on a lower level, Parisian suburbs, on a higher level, capitalist social formation), is enriched by a revolutionary approach to the relationship between the author-artist and their work. Thanks to the unique incorporation of voice-overs into the film, the artist establishes new connections and questions between themselves and the viewer, making conventional approaches unthinkable. Or, reflexive film sociology, in which Jean-Luc Godard examines the subject captured by artistic representation as if it were of scientific interest, and through this process, himself as the creator of the work - the artist, immersed in his time, just like Marina Vlady. /// The creativity with form and mise-en-scène is then taken to perfection - consider the famous example with the detail of coffee foam symbolizing the transience of human consciousness or M. Vlady's morning awakening, when the flag of France is unfolded from her pillow and blanket - indicating that what the film showed us in the case of the Parisian housing estate definitely does not apply to it alone.
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I'm watching these films, but it's as if I'm not seeing anything. I enjoy the various elements that Godard uses, like in this case, the narrator's voice, but as a whole, the film just didn't click with me, even though the theme is interesting and presented almost in a documentary style, or at least with a very realistic portrayal of scenes.
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