Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St
312.846.2600
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Two or Three Things I Know About Her
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July 10, 2009 – July 16, 2009
Daily (schedule)
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$9
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In Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Jean-Luc Godard curbs his usual bravado to muse on the title's double entendre — Her refers to both the beloved (but rapidly changing) Paris and housewife/prostitute Juliette Janson (Marina Vlady). A free-associative approach gives the intellectually omnivorous director a chance to weigh in on politics, consumerism, Roland Barthes, and that New Wave fixation: cinema and the liberated woman. Yet the film is remarkable not for its au courant cynicism, but its Pop-art aesthetic. Raoul Coutard's CinemaScope camera accentuates Lichtenstein-like colors, and gracefully captures a city — and a woman — adjusting to the modern age.
