Two quotes from essays collected in Forever Godard:

Since the earliest days of his career, Godard's films have always combined perceptions and apperception, not only on the part of the characters (what they say, what they hear, what they suddenly think of, what they foresee, what they remember), but also on that of the utterance itself (the camera starts to look at the actor rather than the character; the director suddenly choses to reflect on the nature of cinema, on showing, on narration, instead of continuing to tell the story as though there was no one pulling the strings; he recalls the history of cinema and its stories).

… does a 'voice-off' come from a 'space-off' (a nearby or surrounding space), or some space that is more mysterious, magical, virtual, both of the scene and not of it?