2 Or 3 Things I Know About Her [Criterion] [1967] (DVD)
Jean-Luc Godard
Synopsis
In 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle), Jean-Luc Godard beckons us ever closer, whispering in our ears as narrator. About what? Money, sex, fashion, the city, love, language, war: in a word, everything. Among the legendary French filmmaker’s finest achievements, the film takes as its ostensible subject the daily life of Juliette Janson (Marina Vlady), a housewife from the Paris suburbs who prostitutes herself for extra money. Yet this is only a template for Godard to spin off into provocative philosophical tangents and gorgeous images. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her is perhaps Godard’s most revelatory look at consumer culture, shot in ravishing widescreen color by Raoul Coutard.
Special Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Audio commentary featuring film scholar Adrian Martin
- Archival television interviews: the first featuring actress Marina Vlady on the set of the film, the second with Jean-Luc Godard debating the subject of prostitution
- New video interview with theater director Antoine Bourseiller, a friend of Godard's in the sixties
- A visual essay cataloguing the multiple references in the film
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- An essay by film critic Amy Taubin and the letter that sparked the idea for the film
- New cover by Jason Hardy
Product Details
- Format: Color, Widescreen
- Language: French
- Subtitles: English
- Aspect Ratio: 2:35:1
- Number of Discs: 1
- Rating: Not Rated
- Label: The Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 07/21/2009
- Run Time: 87 minutes
- Catalogue #: 482
- Region: 1