Joseph Gehrard, Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Raoul Levy

In this film, 'Her' refers to both Paris, the character of Juliette Janson and the actress playing her, Marina Vlady. The film is a kind of dramatised documentary, illustrating and exaggerating the em...( read more  read more... )otionless lives of characters in the new Paris of the 60s, where commercialism mocks families getting by on small incomes, where prostitution is a moneyspinning option, and where people are coldly resigned and immune to the human nightmares of Vietnam, and impending Atomic war.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard

Release Date: March 17, 1967

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  • August 9, 2009
    "2 or 3 Things I Know About Her" comes from a string of nine films directed by Jean-Luc Godard from 1964 to 1967. It was shot at the same time as "Made in USA", another film recently released by the Criterion collection - this film was shot in the afternoons, and the latter film ...( read more)was shot in the morning. Although "Made in USA" seems a bit familiar after seeing films like Godard's "Pierrot le fou", "2 or 3 Things I Know About Her" is, if nothing else, a completely original and subversive experience.

    The inspiration for the plot was an article that focused on apartment-dwelling housewives in Paris that prostituted themselves to pay rent. This isn't the intensely erotic world of Luis Bunuel's "Belle je jour", however, but moreso a series of impersonal business exchanges.

    Juliette Jeanson (Maria Vlady) is a housewife living in the Parisian suburbs. She is a mother of two, pregnant with a third, and is forced to go back into the business of prostitution to make ends meet. The film is a day in her life, less focused on the sex, and much more focused on the mundane routines - cleaning around the house, shopping for new dresses. We hear the perspective of Maria Vlady, as an actress playing Juliette Jeanson, occasionally, and the soundtrack is also filled with the slightly audible philosophical mumblings of Jean-Luc Godard. The whispering gives the film an unmistakable presence - almost ethereal and dreamlike.

    The film is most known for a famous shot that focuses on the inside of a coffee up. It swirls around slowly, it's bubbles dancing, and Godard's vocal narration quotes Baudelaire and declares "More than ever I have to look around me to my fellow creatures, my brother".

    Often declared a filmed essay rather than a typical narrative, "2 or 3 Things I Know About Her" is a bit unfocused in dealing with everything from consumerism to Godard's distaste for the war-mongering America. Juliette is a forgettable heroine as she seems to exist only by necessity - we understand her representation of capitalism run roughshot, but never connect with her on a deeply personal level.

    Despite a few reservations I had with the film, I thought it was significantly more engaging and innovative than "Made in USA". It's much more dense, less self-referential, and much more contemplative. The film is certainly a challenging one, but it's enchanting enough to merit a second and third viewing.
  • April 10, 2009
    "Le langage c'est la maison dans laquelle l'homme habite."
    Once again, smart statements, even in literary if not philosophical prospects are abondant. Incidentally, the photography work is brillant.
  • March 12, 2009
    To hell with stories! Goddard don't need no damn story! This film is a conundrum, because it's very hard to tell whether it's making fun of pretentious movies or being pretentious itself. The presence of the whispering narrator gives you the sense of either an anthropologist hidi...( read more)ng in underbrush spying on his subject or a director commentating on his film as it plays. The strangest thing about this film is that it knows it's a film, and its characters know that they're characters in a film. It's a really disorienting effect.
  • November 16, 2007
    I enjoyed it to a certain extent. It's good but it's pretty much average late 60s Godard masturbation. I would suggest seeing Pierrou le Fou if you have to pick a late 60s Godard.
  • September 5, 2009
    Wonderful, Godard's use of scenarios and personalized film-making is what makes him one of the most outstanding film-makers ever. This film is remarkable in so many levels, just watching it, its heavy dialectics and stunning monologues keeps the viewer engaged and receptive to wh...( read more)at is film in its most creative, most outlandish.
  • August 4, 2009
    Excptional 'essay film' from Godard. Poetic, full of memorable images and philosophic insights that dwarf its trite neo-marxist ideological stance. Marina Vlady is ravishing.
  • December 8, 2008
    no thanks not my thing
  • July 28, 2007
    At first extremely interesting and intelligent, just to become more and more pretentious for my taste... I liked it and I admired it, but that's it.
  • June 13, 2007
    interesting . . .

    recommended for miss noise school of film
  • May 1, 2007
    The bored housewife type is not boring here...

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October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Godard is as relaxed in the film as in the title. full review

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