Saturday,
July 14 at 7pm
5th
Annual Bastille Day Celebration
Two
or Three Things I Know about Her
dir.
Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1966, 35mm, 90 mins, color, French
w/ English subtitles
 Is
her hair dark chestnut or light brown? Is she Marina Vlady or
Juliette Janson? Asks the narrator, (Godard himself), in a conspiratorial
whisper. She’s both: an actress in a film and a housewife from
the Paris suburbs who turns tricks in the city once a month
to make ends meet –and to pay for the latest, just-right, new
outfit. As we follow her on a typical day, Godard regularly
cuts away to the building cranes that loom above the Paris region
transforming the city (the “Her” of the title).
Two
or Three Things I Know about Her is a summation of Godard’s
concerns and techniques from the decade which his films single-handedly
redefined the avant-garde: the prevalence of prostitution of
all kinds in modern society; America in Vietnam; the advent
of the consumer society; the upward spiral of existential angst.
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