Jean-Luc Godard's superbly acted and inventive parody of modern life revolves around three characters who are all at turning points in their lives. The all-star cast features Isabelle Huppert as a country girl who comes to the city to become a prostitute; Nathalie Baye as a woman who decides to give up her city job to pursue an idyllic life in the country; and Jacques Dutronc as a television director seperated from his wife and daughter and at the end of his tether. The film is stu
This low-key film was Godard's true return to cinema after more than a decade spent making video experiments and political essay films -- Godard himself calls it his "second first film." It's a world-weary ode to the shattered ambitions of the counter-culture 60s, and an appraisal of how to reshape those ambitions for the new world of the 80s and beyond. Godard explores the opposition of city and country, the role of the media, and the politics of sexuality, all while telling an uncharacteristically simple story of a film director struggling to reconnect with his alienated ex-wife and daughter. Godard's own struggles to recover his engagement after the disappointments of the 60s and 70s are tangible at every point in this remarkable film. It's this autobiographical subtext that truly elevates the film and gives it an emotional core.
Artificial Eye's DVD has great image quality, and is remarkable for including Godard's video essay of notes for making the film. It provides an instructive glimpse into Godard's thinking and his early ideas for the film.
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After spending the 1970s experimenting with video, groundbreaking director Jean-Luc Godard returned to commerical film production with this movie about three people whose lives are all at a turning point: a country girl turned city prostitute (Isabelle Huppert), a city woman who moves to the country (Nathalie Baye), and a washed-up television director falling into despair (Jacques Dutronc). The film exhibits such familiar Godard traits as the attentiveness to the rhythm and textures of city life and the innovative approach to sound, while also introducing a radical new slow motion technique and a concern with landscape not witnessed in any of his previous works.
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