2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (France, 1967)

2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (France, 1967) A.K.A. Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Stars: Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Juliet Berto...

Apparently Godard shot this simultaneously with Made in U.S.A., which I’ve covered in this post. Hardly a narrative film, it’s more like an essay where the actors spout Godard’s observations and comments about contemporary life, social and political stuff. Stylistically experimental as well, characters would also break the 4th wall, the actors sometimes seemingly talking about themselves, not in character.

His marriage with Anna Karina on the rocks, this time we have the lovely Marina Vlady... she walks into a café to meet a friend, passing by a man playing a Masquerade (Gottlieb, 1966)...

In a later, rather long scene, the camera focuses on several different conversations going on in a restaurant/café, accompanied by the sounds of a woman playing pinball the whole time. In the conversation involving Juliet Berto, we can see the woman behind her playing a Big Chief (Williams, 1965). Behind the man is an A-Go-Go (Williams, 1966)...

Jean-Luc Godard (80s, 90s)

I was never a fan of later-era Godard (80s, 90s), but there are a few pinballspottings...

Passion  (France, 1982). 
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli...

A hugely popular machine, one I definitely remember playing back in the day... Kiss  (Bally, 1979)...

Prénom: Carmen (France, 1983)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Starring: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel...

Not enough visible to identify this one... but we hear the guy playing it behind Maruschka...

Hélas Pour Moi (France, 1993)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Laurence Masliah, Bernard Verley...

There’s an Eight Ball Deluxe (Limited Edition)  (Bally, 1982). We hear some of the machine’s voice sounds: “Quit talking and start chalking!”...

Masculin-féminin (France, 1966)

Masculin-féminin (France, 1966). Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert...

Ooops, I forgot about this one for the Godard special of the last post, but then again, unlike the other 60s Godard pinballspottings, Anna Karina is not in it.

Sure, Chantal Goya is cute, but she can’t hold a candle to Anna K. She was also a singer of yé-yé pop songs. There are plenty of snippets of Goya’s songs and references to pop culture. An intertitle in the film states “This film could be called The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola”.

In a café, there’s a Ship-Mates (Gottlieb, 1964)...

Later we see a game room with a bowling machine, a driving game and an Aloha (Gottlieb, 1961)...

Chantal Goya had a song called “Si tu gagnes au flipper” [if you win at pinball]. The song is typical of that pop style, with pretty vapid lyrics, but it starts out with some pinball sounds.

Si tu gagnes au flipper, tu as perdu mon cœur
Car je sais que tu es sorti, avec ma meilleure amie

Translation:
If you win at pinball, you’ve lost my heart
Because I know that you’ve gone out with my best friend

We hear a bit of the song whilst Léaud plays a game, but we don’t see enough of the table to be able to identify it, except that it is most likely a Gottlieb, because they were definitely king of pinball in France...

Jean-Luc Godard (France) Part 1: The 60s

Jean-Luc Godard is an influential French filmmaker notably associated with the Nouvelle Vague film movement (“New Wave” in English). Hi films were variously experimental, genre-deconstructing, intellectual, political and funny. He was married to actress Anna Karina, who graced many of his 1960s films with her beauty and charm.

Vivre sa vie (France, 1962) [A.K.A. My Life To Live]
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Starring: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe...

A couple of scenes where the main characters play pinball. In the first scene, Anna plays a Sea Belles (Gottlieb, 1956)...

In the second scene, Anna’s friends play a Sweet Sioux (Gottlieb, 1959). This was a 4-player game, which normally had wood side rails, but metal ones also existed, as pictured here...

Bande à part (France, 1964) [A.K.A. Band of Outsiders].
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Stars: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey...

Just a brief glimpse of a Sunset (Gottlieb, 1962) as the gang walks into a café…

Pierrot le fou (France, 1965)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina...

A very brief glimpse of two machines in a bowling alley.
The one on the left is a Sky·Line (Gottlieb, 1965), which was pretty much brand new when the film was shot.

The other we don’t see enough of to identify...

Made In U.S.A. (France, 1966)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Starring: Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud...

Godard’s last feature film with Karina… they had divorced in 1965. I don’t remember much of the plot, but it was a sort of mish-mash film noir with gangsters and politics and deconstructed.

Some of the gang Anna’s with hang out in a garage where there’s a Sea-Shore (Gottlieb, 1964)...

Bonus:
Godard’s 1965 film Alphaville (which also starred Anna Karina) inspired Jerry Kelley for the artwork for Capersville (Bally, 1966)...