TWO OR THREE THINGS
I KNOW ABOUT HER aka
DEUX OU TROIS CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D'ELLE
Year: 1967
UK: BFI
Cast: Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Jean Narboni, Christophe Bourseiller, Marie Bourseiller, Raoul Levy, Joseph Gehrard, Helena Bielicic, Robert Chevassu, Yves Beneyton, Jean-Pierre Laverne, Blandine Jeanson, Claude Miller, Juliet Berto, Jean-Patrick Lebel, Anna Manga, Benjamin Rosette, Helen Scott, Jean-Luc Godard (Narrator)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Country: France
Language: French (English subtitles)
UK: 90 mins
UK Release Date: 6 July 2001 (Limited Re-release - London)
Synopsis
August 17, 1966: a day in the life of a city and a woman. Juliette Janson (Marina Vlady) lives with her children Christophe and Solange and her husband Robert (Roger Montsoret) in a modern apartment in a huge housing development on the outskirts of Paris. To maintain their standard of living, she works occasionally as a prostitute.
This morning after Christophe has left for school, she takes Solange with her into the city and leaves her with Monsieur Gerard, a babyminder, who also rents out rooms by the hour. She wanders round a fashionable store, tries on a fur coat, buys a dress; she sits in a cafe waiting for a customer; eventually she goes to a hotel room with a young metro worker.
Afterwards she goes to the hairdresser's for a shampoo and leaves with her manicurist Marianne. Then after having her car washed at the garage where Robert works, she goes to a luxury hotel where Marianne has arranged a remunerative partie a trois with an American journalist. She collects Robert from the cafe and they drive home and put the children to bed. Juliette wonders whether there is any point to the kind of life they lead but continues with her nightly routine.