Unusually cast and playfully shot, Godard’s masterly hymn to cinema features Michel Piccoli and Brigitte Bardot as a couple whose marriage begins to fall apart while they are both shooting a film directed by Fritz Lang on the island of Capri. Served by Raoul Coutard’s luscious ‘Scope images and Georges Delerue’s enthralling score, Godard’s unusually straightforward adaptation of a novel by Moravia is also his most hauntingly beautiful film.
