Returns Policy
If you are unhappy with your purchase, you can return it to us within 14 days. More details
Film Description
Inspired by a story about housewife prostitution, Two or Three Things I Know About Her is based around Godard's contention that to survive in Paris at that time you had to prostitute yourself. 'She' is both a housewife and "L'agglomeration Parisienne" and the French capital becomes the arch-location in Godard's mix of fiction and documentary. A key 60s film, still radical now. Marina Vlady plays the housewife who goes on the game for a day a week in order to buy some of life's little luxuries, and, eventually she hopes, to escape the grimness of high-rise suburbia.
The her in this individualistic film refers to Paris, the Paris that perhaps only Godard could visualise in such a stark style. Inspired by an article on housewife pr... more >
The her in this individualistic film refers to Paris, the Paris that perhaps only Godard could visualise in such a stark style. Inspired by an article on housewife prostitution, the film examines his theory that to live in Paris one had to prostitute oneself in order to survive. This sociological fable is shot through the eyes of a housewife, Juliette who spends one day a week in central Paris selling her body on the street in the hope that she will be able to buy happiness and escape the high rise architecture of the suburb in which she lives with her family. A leading force of the French New Wave, Godard created a masterpiece which comes across radical and modernist over thirty years after its conception. Seen at the time as personifying the changing moods of womankind itself, Marina Vlady delivers perhaps her defining performance as the sad heroine at the heart of a menage-a-trois which has been emulated but never repeated. The Nouvelle Vague in all its youthful joie-de-vivre. < less
