"In 1970 this film was called 'Victory'" ...
"In 1974 it is called 'Here and Elsewhere'" ...
This was the moment when Godard entered--totally--what we might call (for lack of a better word) the 'mature' phase of his work. He had been political before, even "vulgarly" so with his Dziga Vertov Group efforts. He had made great films before. But with Ici et ailleurs and Numéro deux he (with the help of Anne-Marie Miéville) began to realize profoundly his and his audience's global/geopolitical location. Filming in Palestine; "I came back home, you came back home." No longer could Godard pretend seamless solidarity--he had to acknowledge his place, and in so doing took a page from the playbook of perhaps the greatest 'extra-French' filmmaker, Jean Rouch ...
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