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  Review by Daniel ★★★★ 8

  How a conversation would look if your parents spoke like parents in a Godard movie: 

  Son: hey mom can I borrow th...

  Mom: What does it mean to feel emotions? Washed away like this seashell, Syrian refugee crisis.

  Son: I uh...

  Mom: The face is like a landscape, what emotion do you show? The Berlin Wall. 

  Son; I really need to borrow the car for...

  Dad: Objects mean more on a plane than people, why must a vehicle exist more than your loving parents? Fascism.

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  Review by Marcissus ★★★ 3

  I can't figure out if I liked this film or just liked the idea of it. I like what it is trying to do, on paper it seems like something I would love to see. Godard tends to get too overly philosophical thick and fast and whilst I do see the sparks and I do see myself being entranced by the madness too much of it just doesn't stick, and he's just so heavy-handed with it all. Sometimes it just feels like the type of shit you toss back and forth with your friend at 3am in the morning after too many beers, and right now I'm way too sober for your shit, Godard.

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  Review by Janica ★★★★ 2

  Is Godard’s voiceover the first ever film commentary track? I feel like I should watch the film, listen to his voiceover, and then watch it again, because surely the cinematic semiology he is talking about off and on is actually expressed throughout the film, but I’m not necessarily thinking about it when he’s not whispering sweet lectures in my ear!

  This movie struck me most as a continuation of Rouch/Morin’s Chronicle of a Summer and Marker’s The Lovely Month of May, city symphony films about Paris at a very specific point in time, both a portrait of the city and interviews with its inhabitants. I love how the people in this film respond to questions we don’t hear, as if turning the…

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  Review by Peter Labuza ★★★★½ 1

  I've had a love-hate relationship with Godard not only in the past but especially in the last month, but 2 or 3 Things feels like a whole different game to me. Not in the director's aesthetic approach or targets of society, but in his honest-to-God humanism on display here. I thought it might be the fact this film came out after Karina finally walked out on him, but Richard Brody's book notes that he would shoot this film in the morning while making Made in the U.S.A in the afternoons.

  So forgetting armchair psychology, why does this film feel so radically more humane and practically gentle? The framing is tighter (2.35!) without feeling overbearing in visual background information, the film…

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  Review by hannah ½

  i still don’t know anything about her

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  Review by Carlos Valladares 2

  Godard, in a nutshell. This humorless little imp wreaks havoc on my sanity while simultaneously provoking me to question myself and the world around me. Indeed, the experience of watching this is a series of half-whispered barbs back at the screen: "fuck you, godard. that was brilliant, godard. what a pretentiously puerile concept, godard. i never thought of it that way, godard. you've stacked the cards way too obviously in your favor, godard. i can sympathize with that, godard. i get the point, godargh. you get me, God-art."

  A string of half-baked ideas, or the most accurate depiction of modern society committed to film? Pick your poison. I refuse to take either side.

  If you unabashedly love Godard, accepting his…

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  Review by cuckoochanel ★★½ 6

  My tenth and least gratifying experience with Jean-Luc Godard, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her is an abstracted diatribe about consumerist modernity corrupting the purity society has to offer (namely love, art, and knowledge), and its corrosion not only of civil morality, but its ability to seduce women in particular and make them whores—both figuratively and literally. 

  Marina Vlady stars as herself and Juliette Jeanson, a stoic mother, wife, and casual prostitute who has pimped herself out to help provide a material life for her family. Insofar as I can discern, Godard believes sex workers and those who love are mutually exclusive—Vlady is a transactional figure regarding physical love, and Godard wryly depicts her heart incapable of being…

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  Review by Edgar Cochran ★★★★½

  The thematic and cinematic follow-up to Une Femme Marriée (1964) was released in 1967, shot back-to-back with the lesser Godard Made in U.S.A. (1966).

  The evolution of Godard from passionate filmmaker to serious artist has made a tremendously sized step forward. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her is marginally better than its thematic predecessor Une Femme Marriée. Unlike Godard's tendency to become obsessed with the pulp culture of America and its destructive fundamentalisms - such as capitalism and the illogical logic of war - which resulted in a notorious detriment of his cinematic quality, he alternatively began to portray the impacts of these political, governmental and artistic ideas and tendencies of a progressively changing society in real people.…

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  Review by Paul Elliott ★★★★

  Two or Three Things I Know About Her is a movie that perpetually feels like it’s in contrast with itself. It’s aware that it’s got a duty to show particular things for the sake of narrative cohesion, but instead, it chooses to participate in a celebration of the ideas that are an extension of them. It’s one of three movies that Jean-Luc Godard released in 1967, and seems to have developed out of primal anticipations and a particular frame of mind. It additionally feels like a transitional period in Godard’s career, uniting the themes and moods of his earlier work with the anti-Americanisms and revolutionary politics which came to monopolise his attention. It indeed asks some searching questions in an original manner, with references from poetry and a general philosophical approach to culture.

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  Review by megan ☕️ ★★★ 3

  The film equivalent of getting trapped in the corner of a party by a guy who tries to discuss sociology at you and show off how smart he is.

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  Review by Shea ★★★★ 2

  (Dis)Association, or the Discovery of Consumerism Among the Parisians.

  Language as cinema, cinema as thought, thought as reality. As Carly Simon said, "I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee."

  I think I might be Godard-pilled now.

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  Review by Richard Chandler ★★★

  "Me, in a word? Indifference."

  Jean-Luc Godard's 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her is as slapdash an effort as its arbitrary title suggests. Its professed subjects are the consumerist refashioning of Parisian life and one woman's quest to keep up with the Joneses by becoming a fille de joie. Regrettably Juliette (the titular her) is embodied in an exceptionally tight and rather colorless performance by Marina Vlady, who was a seasoned actor perturbed both by Godard's unique working methods and by his resentment after she declined his proposal of marriage. The film features much of Godard's standard critiques of modernization but also introduces a recurrent motif bemoaning the Wittgensteinian epistemological chasm betwixt connotative and denotative understandings of language.…