After spending the 1970s experimenting with video, groundbreaking director Jean-Luc Godard returned to commerical film production with this movie about three people whose lives are all at a turning point: a country girl turned city prostitute (Isabelle Huppert), a city woman who moves to the country (Nathalie Baye), and a washed-up television director falling into despair (Jacques Dutronc). The film exhibits such familiar Godard traits as the attentiveness to the rhythm and textures of city life and the innovative approach to sound, while also introducing a radical new slow motion technique and a concern with landscape not witnessed in any of his previous works.
Jean-Luc Godard’s superbly acted and inventive parody of modern life revolves around three characters who are all at turning points in their lives. The all-star cast features Isabelle Huppert as a country girl who comes to the city to become a prostitute; Nathalie Baye as a woman who decides to give up her city job to pursue an idyllic life in the country; and Jacques Dutronc as a television director seperated from his wife and daughter and at the end of his tether. The film is stu



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