"The idea for Two or Three Things... originated with a newspaper article on middle-class women who work as prostitutes to help make ends meet. While structured around a day in the life of such a woman, Juliette, played by Marina Vlady, the scope of the film is much broader. (The image is literally wide-screen, beautifully filmed in CinemaScope by Raoul Coutard, his use of longshot and closeup paralleling the film's juxtaposition of general and specific.) Juliette's situation is contrasted with that of another 'her,' Paris, undergoing massive redevelopment under de Gaulle. Juliette observes that a landscape is like a face, and Godard explores both, examining the relationship between private and personal, to find a city and a life organized to meet (and create) needs and desires-but whose? Typically for Godard, prostitution serves as a metaphor for modern-day capitalism. Household products, designer dresses, giant advertisements and travel posters for faraway places compete to fill the frame. Collaging fiction and documentary, quotes and improvisations, and his owned whispered 'lessons' on modern industrial society, Godard explores modern man's problematic relationship with these 'things,' a problem that is phenomenological as well as economic and political. For Godard, the possibility of people and objects living in harmony is limited, precisely by the ambiguities implicit in relationships between subjects and objects, objects and words, words and images." Kathy Geritz