I Know Her a Little

Like Godard's other works, this film does not follow the traditional film narrative arc: beginning, conflict and outcome. Instead, it presents the audience with the complicated but empty 24-hour life of the heroine Juliette Janssen (played by Marina Vlady). In France in the mid-1960s, various social and philosophical trends were changing. On the surface, Juliet was a middle-class married mother, but later she was a part-time prostitute, dealing with the heavy pressure of life alone. Juliet first sends the crying and screaming child to a man who specializes in babysitting for call girls, and then starts her day. Shopping, doing housework, taking care of children, her ordinary daily life is often interrupted by client appointments. The story in the film has long been fragmented, filled with various narrations, subtitles, symbols, and unrelated shots. Although the film had a script when filming, Godard required the actors to break through the "fourth wall" during performance, randomly create lines, and interact with the staff outside the camera, making the film full of experimental and critical consciousness.