As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
Two or Three Things I Know About Her is one of the most beautiful films of the young Jean-Luc Godard, a great French cineaste, poet and frustrated lover.
– Michael Wilmington,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb 2007
fresh:
Based on a series of magazine articles, the movie was made around the time Godard abandoned conventional narrative almost entirely for what he dubbed the cinematic essay.
– John Monaghan,
Detroit Free Press,
16 Feb 2007
fresh:
he her in the title of Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film is meant to be Paris. There is, however, another 'her.'
– Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
16 Nov 2006
rotten:
Despite an aura of wistfulness, and a certain power that accrues from the disjunction between the story of a vulnerable, life-hardened woman, the chaotic collision of sound and image, and the ham-handed political lessons, this film never moves me.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
16 Nov 2006
fresh:
Raoul Coutard's Techniscope cinematography contemplates an espresso, filling the screen in monumental close-up with a rotating vortex of bubbles and foam.