two or three things

It was sort of refreshing to see a movie that looked like a modern film. Not that I don't enjoy black and white, or animation, or anything in any of the movies we've seen previously, but I'd almost forgotten how color transformed film into what it is now. This movie had that 1960s feel about it, in the colors, the hair, the clothes...everything. It felt like a movie.

That being said, it still felt very new wave, avant-garde. There was definitely a factor in the vague plot, the inter- and aside dialogues, the whispering narrator, that brought this more modern-looking film back to the classic avant-garde roots we have been exploring all semester.

I really liked the different dialogues we see. I liked that the characters spoke their thoughts as well as their actual words. It gave the film a surreal sort of aura while also advancing the knowledge of the characters' background.

I speculated throughout the film exactly who "her" might be without ever really coming up with a solution. At first, I thought perhaps it was women in general. Maybe French women specifically. Just before putting this blog up, I read Tyler's comment about how 'her' might be France in general, which I really agree with. I think it's a story not only about the French women we see but about the city, the country, the time that they live in.