It’s an inventive, original piece, but also a pretentious mess that struggles to sustain in what could be one of Godard’s most overrated films in his prolific first decade as a non-conforming artist.

Stylish and radical, this free-wheeling Godard film is entertaining and impossibly cool.

Twelve uneven vignettes form Godard’s loosely-structured tale of a woman’s descent into prostitution, made with the creative spirit of some of his best works.

Perhaps the most canonical of French New Wave movies other than Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows”.