There are shots of the ongoing construction in Paris interspersed between and within the dramatized scenes, the cast often breaks the fourth wall by looking into the camera and delivering monologues about their thoughts and lives, and a large percentage of the soundtrack is occupied by Godard's philosophical whispered narration about such topics as politics, reality, consciousness, and meaning.

The dramatic plot of the film presents just over 24 hours in the sophisticated, but empty, life of Juliette Jeanson, a bourgeois married mother of two young children who works as a prostitute during the day.

The film was inspired by "Les étoiles filantes" ("The Shooting Stars"), a 1966 article in Le Nouvel Observateur by Catherine Vimenet about prostitution among the housewives in the new high-rise suburbs of Paris.

[5] There was a script for Two or Three Things I Know About Her, but Godard also had Vlady and some of the other actors wear earpieces while shooting, and he would sometimes feed them new lines or ask questions to which they were expected to give spontaneous answers that were appropriate to their characters.

A promotional poster for the film offered different meanings for the "her" of the title, each one a French feminine noun: Juliette lives in one of many high-rises being erected in the banlieues (suburbs) of Paris.

Though the structures were meant to provide housing to families working in the growing capital during the prosperous post-war years, Godard saw the banlieues as the infrastructure for promoting a value system based on consumerism, a term he equated with prostitution.

Godard argued that a consumerist society demands a workforce living in regimented time and space and forced to work jobs they don't like, which he said was "a prostitution of the mind.