At present we have a work around, and, after 3 frustrating days, we finally got to watch our first movie on the new streaming service. I got first pick; Deb chooses the next one. Once each month we will have a day long film festival. Tonight I chose 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, directed by Jean Luc Godard. This was a test of our set up, which is somewhat involved, as well as the streaming quality. Finally, everything worked like a charm!
The print was excellent, the subtitles easy to read, and the film was pretty damn interesting!
We watched this Godard film tonight, on the Criterion Channel.
Filmed in 1967 and released in 1967, it is an avant garde film that stands up to time really well. Juliette lives in a modern high rise development in the suburbs of Paris, with her husband and two children. There is no story, but the camera follows Juliette from evening to evening, through her day working as a prostitute in Paris, and back home again that evening. Interwoven into the collage is the American war in Vietnam, consumerism, and a lot of existentialism. I found it all quite refreshing, as it has been a while since I have seen films by this director, and have never seen this one before.
The cinematography is really well done, it's in vivid colour and CinemaScope wide screen format, and though the movie makes little sense, that is one of its main points; much of the time our lives do not much make sense, either. The Vietnam war did not make much sense, and neither did the suburban dream of those planning those truly ugly living conditions outside of Paris. Here is a short and decent essay about the movie, from the Criterion Collection website.
Favourite moments for me were listening to Juliette's son reading his homework essay, on why girls and boys should try to get along; listening to children off camera talk about their playground and swings having been taken away, leaving them with nothing to do, and the amazing shots looking down into a cup of black coffee.
In other exciting news, we had our house exterior power washed today! It was somewhat overdue for a good bath. Things look pretty good!
Mapman Mike
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