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After a few years of Maoists polemics and uncertain TV works pretty hard to understand Jean-Luke Godar celebrated his return to a comparably acceptable for an ordinary spectator movie, shooting a film that describes money, prostitution, male violence and interconnection between the sound and image – all well-known Godar themes. First time after a film "It's All Right" 1972 (starring Eve Montane and Jane fonda) Godar decided to use real superstars for his work filming Isabella Jupper as a high-paid hooker from Switherland specializing in clients with odd tastes in sex. Highly remarkable is one scene where Jupper serves her clients – businessmen in a sophisticated daisy garland – Ruby Goldberg as a sex machine of its kind used for the mechanism of desire while the capitalistic system. At this moment of Godar's career his desire to use "stars" in his vision criticizes the notion of the "star" itself, which totally coincides with the choice of the subject matter, especially in the film that wasn't done to its end "The Story" – gangster movie about Hollywood that was about to be shot at Zoetrope Studios with Robert De Niroe, Diane Keatone and Marlon Brando. Unfortunately, the deal was over right after the plot was worked out.
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