Week-end (1967)
Week-end storyline. It’s Saturday, and Roland and Corinne Durand are driving from the city to Oinville for the weekend to visit her dying father. They have been poisoning him over several years.
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Out 1: Noli Me Tangere (1971)
“Out 1” is a very precise picture of post May 1968 malaise – when Utopian dreams of a new society had crashed and burned, radical terrorism was starting to emerge in unlikely places and a great many other things. Two marginals who don’t know one another stumble into the remnants of a “secret society”: Colin, a seemingly deaf-mute who all of a sudden begins to talk and Frederique, a con artist working the “short con” (stealing drinks and tricking men who think she’s a hooker out of their money).
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Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Celine and Julie Go Boating begins with Julie sitting on a park bench reading a book of magic spells when a woman (Céline) walks past, and begins dropping (à la Lewis Carroll’s White Rabbit) various possessions. Julie begins picking them up, and tries to follow Céline around Paris, sometimes at a great pace (for instance, sprinting up Montmartre to keep pace with Céline’s tram).
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Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her movie storyline. The feminine pronoun in the title of this film from Jean-Luc Godard refers to both a French housewife and the city of Paris.
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