This is unashamedly intellectual, discursive, noodling film-making, a cinema of ideas, conceived in a language that is demanding, but not totally opaque.
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02/16/07
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
92 %
Reviews Counted: 25 Fresh: 23 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.8/10
Runtime: 84 mins
Synopsis: This dense, layered, and highly political film is an example of French auteur Jean-Luc Godard's work at its most challenging and exhilarating, adding another powerful social commentary to his startlingly original 1960s catalogue. The "her" of the title refers to two objects: Juliette, a... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Jean Narboni, Raoul Levy
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Electrifying sound and image collage of 24 hours in the life of a Parisian housewife by France's most difficult and defiant director, Jean-Luc Godard
05/24/03
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It's a pivotal film made in the summer of 1966, more essay than narrative, about alienation in consumer society and anticipating the mood and ideas that brought about les événements of 1968.
08/16/01
The result is inaccessible, pretentious, and infuriating, yet you can't deny it's the work of a master who was not afraid to twist form and structure to suit his highly critical political message.
07/24/01
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It's a vexing film that teases with sex and serves up radical politics. But it has extraordinary alchemical powers, turning the most ordinary environment -- a young couple's suburban flat -- into a minefield of ideas.
02/08/08
Une réussite esthétique aussi improbable qu'absolue révélant une fois de plus les immenses talents de manipulateur de foule de Godard
12/01/07
... revolutionary, impudent and personal, and still Godard stops to admire the sublime in the ordinary...
03/29/07
Two or Three Things I Know About Her is one of the most beautiful films of the young Jean-Luc Godard, a great French cineaste, poet and frustrated lover.
02/22/07
Based on a series of magazine articles, the movie was made around the time Godard abandoned conventional narrative almost entirely for what he dubbed the cinematic essay.
02/16/07
Godard's got a lot on his mind, mainly outrage at the French government's ongoing construction of a new Paris.
12/26/06
he her in the title of Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film is meant to be Paris. There is, however, another 'her.'
11/16/06
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Despite an aura of wistfulness, and a certain power that accrues from the disjunction between the story of a vulnerable, life-hardened woman, the chaotic collision of sound and image, and the ham-handed political lessons, this film never moves me.
11/16/06
Raoul Coutard's Techniscope cinematography contemplates an espresso, filling the screen in monumental close-up with a rotating vortex of bubbles and foam.
11/14/06
There is certainly enough of wit and beauty, though, to keep the film afloat.
05/09/05
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Godard strips the images of all meaning and with his camera presents them truthfully within his own political rhetoric.
11/08/04
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Jean-Luc Godard's discursive psychological urban drama gets by on sheer energy from what it loses through some of its ill-conceived conceits.
03/18/04
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