DVD Review: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Criterion Collection): Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Christophe Bourseiller, Juliet Berto, Yves Beneyton, Blandine Jeanson, Claude Miller, Jean-Patrick Lebel, Raoul Lévy, Jean Narboni, Marie Bourseiller, Roger Montsoret, Helen Scott, Raoul Coutard, Jean-Luc Godard: Movies & TV
DVD Review: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Criterion Collection): Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Christophe Bourseiller, Juliet Berto, Yves Beneyton, Blandine Jeanson, Claude Miller, Jean-Patrick Lebel, Raoul Lévy, Jean Narboni, Marie Bourseiller, Roger Montsoret, Helen Scott, Raoul Coutard, Jean-Luc Godard: Movies & TV
Product Description
In Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Duex ou Trois Choses Que Je Sais D’Elle) Jean-Luc Godard beckons us ever closer, literally whispering in our ears as narrator. About what? Money, sex, fashion, the city, love, language, war: in a word, everything. Considered by many to be among the legendary French filmmaker’s finest achievements, the film takes as its ostensible subject the daily life of Juliette Janson (Marina Vlady), a housewife from the Paris suburbs who prostitutes herself for extra money. Yet this is only a template for Godard to spin off into provocative philosophical tangents and gorgeous images. Two or Three Things I Know About Her is perhaps Godard’s most revelatory look at consumer culture, shot in ravishing widescreen color by Raoul Coutard.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• Archival television interviews: the first featuring Vlady on the set of the film, the second with Godard engaged in debate with a government official on the subject of prostitution
• New video interview with Godard friend Antoine Bourseiller
• A visual essay cataloguing the multiple references in the film
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A new essay by Sasha Frere-Jones
Stills from 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Click for larger image)
Godard at his polemical best,
By A Customer
This review is from: Two or Three Things I Know About Her [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Before declaring "End of Cinema" in "Weekend", Jean-Luc Godard made this utterly fascinating and engrossing meditation on the modern consumer lifestyle. "Her" is Juliette, a married housewife that turns to prostitution to bring in money so she can buy the newest dresses, and also the modernizing Paris of the 1960s. You won’t find the postcard landscapes of the Eiffel Tower or the Champs-Elysee in Godard’s political and philosophical tract that takes issue with the suburbanizing of Paris with huge apartment buildings, perfectly captured by Raoul Coutard’s always stunning cinematography. Also in the film: attacks on the US in Vietnam (Juliette’s son’s dream) and relations between men and women, and an exploration of alienation and the struggle for meaning in the (then) changing world of 1966. This might sound boring–me, I eat it up. As previously mentioned, this is one of Godard’s last films before temporarily abandoning classical filmmaking, and his frustration with the confinements of cinematic form result in pushing the boundaries of narrative film. There’s very little story, but the movie is filled with thoughts and meanings, and is one of the most personal films made by a director.
A Transcendent film, truly a work of genius.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Two or Three Things I Know About Her [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is simply one of the finest films I have ever seen. Godard does things in ways that no one else can. It blends sociopolitical commentary with pure experimentation and existential realism. Visually specatacular and completely engaging while abstract and mysterious. A perfect film.
Doesn’t get any better,
By A Customer
This review is from: Two or Three Things I Know About Her [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is one of my favorite films of all time. It does take some knowledge of the political atmosphere of the time and place to appreciate. Once again, a visionary blueprint for the future of movies. Though he works in film, isn’t Godard really the first camcorder director?
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