2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle

France, 1967

Documentary, Cult

Synopsis

Juliette Janson is not only a suburban housewife from Paris, she is also a part-time prostitute. A discourse on sex , fashion, money and consumer culture.

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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

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Awards & Festivals

Berlin International Film Festival

1993

São Paulo International Film Festival

1989

The New York Film Festival

1968

2012

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Articles from the Notebook

This is the film which famously includes close-ups of bubbles in coffee, bursting and reforming like the creation and dissolving of a universe; these gave Martin Scorsese the idea for the Alka-Seltzer shot in “Taxi Driver” ten years later. Shot in mostly crystal-clear color and widescreen by Willy Kurant…, the movie captures the look of consumerist culture gone mad with dispiriting sharpness, and ends with Godard ruefully anticipating "going back to zero.

Glenn Kenny

September 05, 2017

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…Two or Three Things – in many ways alongside the less political and more romantically-tinged Vivre sa vie (1962), which in addition to also treating the theme of prostitution likewise suppresses genre and the primacy of narrative with “documentary” techniques and qualities – contains arguably the most inquisitive, open, genuinely self-reflexive, philosophical, aesthetically innovative, at times lyrical and often funny cinema Godard has made.

Hamish Ford

March 17, 2013

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The greatest film by the greatest post-1950s filmmaker, Jean-Luc Godard’s 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her presents the critic, humbled by the beauty of its surfaces, the density of its ideas, and the uncanny coherence of its fragmented structure, with a writing dilemma. If any film deserves a book-length exegesis, it is this one. Alternately, one pithy paragraph might do the trick.

Amy Taubin

July 21, 2009

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What are people saying?

Manuel Bayo Gisbert's rating of the film 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Manuel Bayo Gisbert

A pure take on cinema. Terrence Malick would learn a lot from this film. One of the most original films of all time.
January 21, 2017 18:03
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catweinz's rating of the film 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
catweinz

très beau : les images, les phrases, la pensée, l'humour. du pur Godard
January 02, 2017 23:08
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Ekaterina Chernyaeva's rating of the film 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Ekaterina Chernyaeva

Godard c'est Godard! One of my favourite films by him. Existence, essence of it in the modern world through coffee, through cigarets, through act of talking. Doesn't give answers but posses more questions. Existence through her eyes, he is just accompanies her existence, but her eyes are through eyes of the director.
January 24, 2019 18:11
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Güven Şahinkanat's rating of the film 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Güven Şahinkanat

interesting and different.I really liked that experimental coffee shots and clever diaologues which linked these shots. there are many new searches at this film . When you watch this film in 2015 final shot can be seen simple or nonsensical .if you assess this film in its own period you can see many new things. very strong message with an experimental language.
January 24, 2019 18:07
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Louisa Savignon's rating of the film 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Louisa Savignon

a film to watch a thousand times. visionary! favorite godard yet. and, of course, photo & art (& score) fantastiques.
June 23, 2015 05:40
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MARA SSB's rating of the film 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
MARA SSB

A reflexive and profound narrative about human consciousness and unconsciousness; ethnology; the psychology of form, space and time. The rise of consumer culture displayed into a provocative view which extrapolates the recent memories about the war. Remarkable plans and photography, a great intensity at Godard's monologue and Marina Vlady's performance. A favorite!
January 24, 2019 17:44
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christopher gordon's rating of the film 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
christopher gordon

Godard at his best. Striking an interesting and unique link between image and language, Godard introduces a mix of topics that gradually develop and bleed together. Perhaps not for everyone, this is a film that feels perfectly paced and masterfully delivered. I'm not one of those that just loves a film because it has Godard's name on it. But I love this one. And it has Godard's name on it.
January 24, 2019 17:03
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Max Seqgar's rating of the film 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Max Seqgar

Marvelous late-60's dialectical deconstruction of France as one intellectual prostitute; with wonderful string quartet accentual interludes that will constantly make your mind go "bling". As entertaining as a pinball machine!!!
January 24, 2019 18:02
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