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NEW 35MM SCOPE PRINT!
"The summit of Godard's work!" - Richard Roud
"Perhaps Godard's greatest feature." - Susan Sontag
"One of the top ten films of the twentieth century." - J. Hoberman
Considered by many critics and scholars to be Godard's masterpiece, TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER has not been available in North America for over a decade. (We showed it last in our exhaustive Godard retrospective.) The film was based on a newspaper report about suburban housewives turning to prostitution to pay for their latest consumer goods. Punctuated by looming Scope close-ups of soap boxes and everyday items - the “cosmos in a coffee cup” sequence is legendary - Godard's vision of a world in which “dead objects are always alive and live people are already dead” focuses on the daily routine of a housewife-cum-prostitute who moves between husband, pimp and john, kitchen, café and whorehouse with studied indifference. The “her” of the title is also Paris, which was undergoing traumatic “urban renewal” at the time. A pivotal film in Godard's career and in the intellectual and political life of France, TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER speaks as acutely and movingly about our own time as it does about the Sixties. “May very well be Godard's most consummate film” (James Monaco). - James Quandt
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