In Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Jean-Luc Godard curbs his usual bang-bang bravado to muse on his title’s double entendre-- Her refers to both his beloved (but rapidly changing) Paris and the housewife/prostitute Juliette Janson (Marina Vlady in Brechtian self-awareness). A free-associative approach gives the omnivorous director a chance to weigh in on politics, consumerism, Barthes, and that Nouvelle Vague fixation: cinema and the liberated woman. Yet the film is remarkable not for its au courant cynicism, but its pop art beauty. Raoul Coutard’s CinemaScope camera accentuates Lichtenstein-like colors, and gracefully captures a city--and a woman-- adjusting to the modern age.
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