2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

The "her" in the title of Jean-Luc Godard's cinematic/political essay refers both to the city of Paris, and the heroin of the film who is a mild mannered housewife that occasionally delves into prostitution. This is one his most probing and philosophical films of the 1960's, where his typical sense of humor takes a backseat to his developing "essayic" technique on such topics as Vietnam, the image, politics, consummerism, language, housing problems and anything else that might pop into his mind. It's both facinating and a bit confounding, and while never directly addressing the issues of the soul, it seems to be there burried underneath the surface of political discourse.