SCREENING ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3RD.

This playful tribute to the classic Hollywood musical, which features a score by Michel Legrand, is one of Godard’s most accessible early films. The story follows Angéla (Anna Karina), a Parisian exotic dancer who desperately wants to have a baby. But her boyfriend Émile (Jean-Claude Brialy) is hesitant, prompting Angéla to flirt with his best friend Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo) to provoke jealousy which leads to a series of misunderstandings. Through an imaginative colour palette, improvisational dialogue, and deliberately disruptive cinematic tricks, Godard transforms a simple love triangle into something entirely new.

Notes by David O’Mahony

Screening as part of Truth, 24 Frames per Second: The Films of Jean-Luc Godard