Jean-Luc Godard mixes video and film in his Grenoble studio, discussing how he secured funding for the film. The action unfolds on two monitors, as a young working-class couple lives in a claustrophobic, high-rise apartment complex and marital discord is set off by the wife’s infidelity.
Direction
Twin-monitor structure collapses narrative into pure apparatus.
Acting
Battistella's exhausted physicality carries every frame.
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Godard shot this in his actual Grenoble apartment while simultaneously trying to finance every other project he abandoned.
The video/film split mirrors 1970s anxieties about television killing cinema—Godard's response was to make television about cinema killing marriage.
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