Paolo Pozzesi

Noted French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard makes another foray into Marxist film in this political film. (All Movie Guide)

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence... (imdb)

This film examines the evolution of a young Marxist militant and the contradictions between the Marxist and the bourgeois ideology that coexist in her daily life. A voice-off, the voice of the political awareness, carefully inspects the life conditions of this young woman.