Sombre black-and-white account of everyday prostitution in Paris,
with a blank yet bottomless central performance from Godard's first
wife Anna Karina. Structured like a novel, complete with 12 chapter
headings, it includes the first of Godard's insistent voiceovers,
conveying the wider context of prostitution, developing it as a
metaphor for the ways of a bourgeois society he may already have felt was
doomed. But it's the under-stated, precisely observed, almost
Bressonian details - a man's hand hidden in the folds of his pocket;
Karina crying at Dreyer's Joan Of Arc - that carry the emotional clout.
