SCREENING ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH.

A vibrant neo-noir that transforms a detective story into a political and pop-art collage. Anna Karina stars as Paula Nelson, who travels to a fictional French town to investigate the death of her former lover. Inspired loosely by Donald Westlake’s novel The Jugger (without securing permission which delayed the international release to the mid-2000s) the film blends deadpan humour with radical narrative dislocation. Shot alongside Two or Three Things I Know About Her, it reflects Godard’s growing political engagement and his deconstruction of genre conventions during a fiercely experimental period.

Notes by David O’Mahony

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