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Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)

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Reviews Counted: 25 Fresh: 23  Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.8/10

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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... 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 woman who resides in one of Paris's drab, ugly suburbs, and the capital city itself. Using a fragmented narrative style that mirrors Juliette's clipped, confused existence, Godard looks at a day in the life of Juliette and the cast of Parisian women that revolves around her. A constant juxtaposition of images compares Juliette's alienating existence as a housewife and a prostitute with the equally alienating and constantly changing face of Paris--seen in documentary-style footage, shot in glorious CinemaScope by Raoul Coutard. Godard also sets his sights on the concept of language itself, questioning the reality of words, their history, and their ability to convey the truth of actual day-to-day occurrences. Godard himself provides a whispered, but very trenchant, narration throughout the film, which further implicates the modern world for moving too quickly and soullessly, condemning the escalating violence in Vietnam, the growing infatuation with television, and the world's animalistic dependence on sex and sexuality. Simply put, this is cinema at its most thought provoking. [More]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Jean Narboni, Raoul Levy

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard

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Jul 11, 1997

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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
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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Too good to miss.

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02/11/06
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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

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05/24/03
Fran Hortop
Channel 4 Film
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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.

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08/16/01
Philip French
Observer [UK]
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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.

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07/24/01
Neil Smith
BBC
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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.

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02/08/08
Shawn Levy
Oregonian
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Une réussite esthétique aussi improbable qu'absolue révélant une fois de plus les immenses talents de manipulateur de foule de Godard

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12/01/07
Jean-François Vandeuren
Panorama
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... revolutionary, impudent and personal, and still Godard stops to admire the sublime in the ordinary...

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03/29/07
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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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.

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02/22/07
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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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.

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02/16/07
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
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Godard's got a lot on his mind, mainly outrage at the French government's ongoing construction of a new Paris.

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12/26/06
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News
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he her in the title of Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film is meant to be Paris. There is, however, another 'her.'

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11/16/06
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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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.

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11/16/06
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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Raoul Coutard's Techniscope cinematography contemplates an espresso, filling the screen in monumental close-up with a rotating vortex of bubbles and foam.

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11/14/06
Nathan Lee
Village Voice
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06/29/05
Emanuel Levy
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There is certainly enough of wit and beauty, though, to keep the film afloat.

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05/09/05
Renata Adler
New York Times
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Godard strips the images of all meaning and with his camera presents them truthfully within his own political rhetoric.

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11/08/04
Derek Smith
Cinematic Reflections
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Godard is as relaxed in the film as in the title.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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07/28/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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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.

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03/18/04
Dennis Schwartz
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