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Film
Two or Three Things I Know About Her

When

July 10, 2009 – July 16, 2009

Daily

Where
Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N State St, 312.846.2600)
Price
$9
Details
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2009/july/6.html#anchor6
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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.

Jason Jude Chan