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...just moved to Hollywood, which explains the remarkable precision that organizes the lavishness in this film. The entirely American cast lends a flavor of New World comment on the European scene. This international cooperation in moviemaking was not to be seen again until very recently (Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt...
Swinging World. Scholarly articles probe the relationship between the Beatles and the nouvelle vague films of Jean-Luc Godard, discuss "the brio and elegance" of Dionne Warwick's singing style as a "pleasurable but complex" event to be "experienced without condescension." In chic circles, anyone damning rock 'n' roll is labeled not only square but uncultured. For inspirational purposes, such hip artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers and Andy Warhol occasionally paint while listening to rock 'n' roll music. Explains Warhol: "It makes me mindless, and I paint better." After gallery openings in Manhattan, the black-tie gatherings often adjourn...
...consciousness of Simone de Beauvoir is illuminated. You see, Simone, "femininity" is not just some poetic veil of man's invention, woven to trick ladies into washing dishes and minding babies. A woman isn't just a man with a dress hung on him. A woman (and Godard's film saturates an imbeclic title with frightening profundity) is a woman...
...shame that Godard never realized the "feminity" he manages to portray goes deeper than Anna's wish to have a baby--the flimsy device upon which he hinges her infidelity. It goes way, way down to an unshakeable confidence in her own desirability, and with that, to the secret knowledge that she can get away with anything...
Women. They're nothing but exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening, and infuriating hags, But by and large we must agree with Godard, not with Higgins. They are a marvelous...