Sunday, 30 December 2012

Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)



☆ ☆ ☆ 

Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) -- J.-L. Godard

Is there no one today doing anything as radical as what Jean-Luc Godard did in the Sixties who is still attracting the critical (and popular?) attention that he did?  Two or Three Things is a transitional film for JLG, moving him from his more narrative features to the pure dialectical essay film.  This halfway point may represent his most intellectually stimulating period, merging beauty and design and a partial narrative (a wife engages in prostitution to supplement the family budget) with a fervor for critical sociological theories about language, meaning, ways of seeing and thinking. And of course, class, consumerism, Vietnam, and French politics. Fascinating, but I need the annotated version.


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