While far from a straight genre piece Goddard had made an espionage movie as a way in to those topics.
OK, so maybe Karina’s cool and water-boarding weren’t going to easily occupy the same space but I was game for the challenge of working, metaphorically, a Venn diagram in which as many of these ideas overlapped on a cover as possible-if not within the entire package. That's a lot of ideas that don't necessarily sit together all that well -it'd be very difficult to evoke both Anna Karina's effortless cool AND the torture sequence.” It's also famous for a matter-of-fact torture sequence toward the end, plus it's the first time Godard worked with Anna Karina. When Eric Skillman reached out to me to design the cover and packaging for the Criterion Collection edition, he described it as, “nominally about the Algerian War but really about the intersection of the individual and the political, how ennui/apathy interacts with real-world conflicts. It was made before the debut of Breathless so he wasn't yet famous, but not released until years later because of it’s controversial political content. Le petit soldat is an interesting movie for where it sits in Jean-Luc Godard's career.
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