i didn’t figure out everything that godard was trying to express with his technique in this short, but i liked a lot of it. i like how woody allen is in the background and godard is in the corner foreground—the director and his subject in their respective positions in the shot. i like the sudden cut to intertitles. how about when godard throws a slightly absurd question at woody, especially in godard’s slightly fluent english or translated from his french, and woody, out of respect, tries to give a straight forward response (i.e. being to close, distancewise, as one watches television). the superimposition of stills onto the live action interview footage is very symbolic of some kind of statement/judgement godard is making.

my favorite shot is the one of godard smoking cigar in tight close-up and his facial expression is sort of judgmental of woody allen as we hear woody talking off-screen—i got a good chuckle out of that one.

godard seems to be having fun making and showing us this short, and it shows in the playful technique as the the interview/meeting unfolds.

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