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Film
Two or Three Things I Know About Her

When

Tuesday May 6, 2008

Wednesday May 7, 2008

Where
Film Forum (209 W Houston St, 212.727.8110)
Price
$10.50
Details
http://www.filmforum.org/films/godards60.html
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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