Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Godard, 1967): Close-Up Cinema, 6.20pm
This film is showing as part of Close-Up's year long tribute: Au Contraire: Jean-Luc Godard
Chicago Reader review:
The most intellectually heroic of Jean-Luc Godard's early features
(1966) was inspired by his reading an article about suburban housewives
day-tripping into Paris to turn tricks for spending money. Marina Vlady
plays one such woman, followed over a single day in a slender narrative
with many documentary and documentarylike digressions. But the central
figure is Godard himself, who whispers his poetic and provocative
ruminations over monumentally composed color 'Scope images and, like
James Agee in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, continually
interrogates his own methods and responses. Among the more memorable
images are extreme close-ups of a cup of coffee, while another
remarkable sequence deconstructs the operations of a car wash. Few
features of the period capture the world with as much passion and
insight.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is an extract.
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