i don't have much of a desire to review Godard. that's not really an option based on how/why i watch his movies. and how/why is that? by making/to make a list, as follows:
emile (Jean-Claude Brialy): "why are you crying?"
angela (Anna Karina): "because i wish i could be both little yellow animals at the same time."
emile: "you always want the impossible."
angela: *smile*
angela says a general, contentedly-affirming-but-overall-emotionally-neutral thing in response to alfred's (Jean-Paul Belmondo) request to hear her thoughts and then she walks across the street away from the camera. he turns to the camera with his cigarette dangling out his mouth, says, "and off she goes," then turns away to watch her as the focus drifts up to the neon sign on the building.
alfred: "i'm very clever."
angela: "oh really? bet you can't do everything i can."
alfred: "bet i can"
several shots of them standing in identical poses, revealed in the last shot to have been angela's plot to get alfred back for slapping her ass by kicking his.
angela: "could you sweep the floor instead of acting like a jerk"
emile stops at the window and turns, the camera traces his sight line as the words "EMILE TAKES ANGELA LITERALLY BECAUSE HE LOVES HER" appear one by one across the screen, then disappear. the camera reaches her, she stands, and the camera pans back, a stare volley, while "AND ANGELA CAN'T BACK DOWN BECAUSE SHE LOVES HIM" appears last word to first word in a right to left progression.
after a little spikey speech back and forth, they both look down and then look up at some off center focal point, the camera starts a slow rotation leftwards, towards the door, and another sentence appears a few words at a time, backwards as the one about angela had: "BECAUSE THEY LOVE EACH OTHER EVERYTHING WILL GO WRONG FOR EMILE AND ANGELA". stops. volleys back to the couple with: "THEY MISTAKENLY THINK THEY CAN CROSS THE LIMITS DUE TO THEIR MUTUAL UNDYING LOVE".
alfred (Belmondo) says "make up your minds, Breathless is on tv and i don't want to miss it"
the boys whisper to each other and laugh, suddenly allied against angela's toying with them. somehow incredibly precious. everyone is on a schoolyard in demeanor.
woman: "they're showing vera cruz"
alfred: "my pal burt lancaster is in it" (turns to the camera, grits teeth in a Lancaster Grin)
angela flips an egg into the air, runs next door to answer the phone, asks alfred to hold on, runs back in her apartment, catches the egg.
happy ending with forgiveness and books and sex and Anna Karina winks at the camera.
2 comments:
mmmmmmm i truly adore this one, it's been too long since i had a date w/mz karina
DEAR AMANDA
DO MORE OF THESE PLEASE
I AM GOING TO CLOSE MY EYES NOW
I AM GOING TO KEEP THEM CLOSED
I DON'T CARE HOW MANY DOORS I RUN INTO
I DON'T CARE HOW FUCKED UP MY EYE SOCKETS GET
I DON'T CARE IF I'M BLEEDING
I WILL DIE UNTIL YOU DO MORE OF THESE
I CARE ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS
BUT MOSTLY I WANT YOU TO DO MORE OF THESE
I THINK YOU SHOULD DO MORE OF THESE
I AM ANNOYED THAT YOU HAVEN'T DONE MORE OF THESE
I KNOW THEY TAKE TIME
BUT ALL SORTS OF SHIT TAKES TIME
IT TAKES TIME TO MAKE PESTO
BUT PESTO GETS MADE
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