1961
“Woman is woman”
Perhaps the director’s most frivolous film, A Woman Is a Woman was described at the time as a “neorealist musical.” Godard’s soon-to-be wife Anna Karina plays a stripper who tries to impregnate one of the men in her life with a rope. . He cuts Michel Legrand’s lush score into dismembered pieces, has characters turn the camera on him, reveals his own craft, and in general, real life is his one long film. express his sense of not.
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1962
“Vivre Sa Vie”
Godard followed the dizzying playtime of “A Woman Is a Woman” with the darker, unusually simple “Vivre Sa Vie” (a.k.a. “My Life to Live”). Anna Karina plays an aspiring actress who has to work as a prostitute and finds herself playing different roles to satisfy her clients. The director puts aside self-introductions and winks to the audience and instead tells this highly metafictional tale with a dozen documentary vignettes, revealing the alienation of urban life and the cruelty of men. increase.
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1965
“Alphaville”
A chilling dystopian science fiction, this rare Godard fantasy film was shot in Paris in the early 1960s and hasn’t been altered to look more futuristic. Set against a backdrop of mid-twentieth-century modernism, “Alphaville” places a rumpled, noir-enabled secret agent in the visual clashes between the character and his habitat, and how technology transforms human life. Reflects the artist’s own vague view of the strangler. Genre filmmakers in the post-‘Alphaville’ world will have to think about how Godard made the mundane look alien.
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1967
“weekend”
The apotheosis of Godard’s early work, The Weekend, packed nearly every minute with astounding imagery and provocative ideas, telling a gritty, satirical tale about a genuinely terrifying, casually violent middle-class couple. , a trip to the country is a proper ironic nightmare. The film’s central sequence is a shot of Long chasing him across an epic traffic jam, peppered with pathetic rage and punctuated with stomach-twirling gore. Overall, the film is a long howl of disgust delivered with plenty of energy and humor.