Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1980 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye
After a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard returned to commercial cinema with this star-driven work of social commentary, while remaining defiantly intellectual and formally cutting-edge. EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF, featuring a script by Jean-Claude Carrière and Anne-Marie Miéville, looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people, a television director (Jacques Dutronc), his ex-girlfriend (Nathalie Baye), and a prostitute (Isabelle Huppert), to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom. Made twenty years into his career, it was, Godard said, his “second first film.”
Up Next in Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
-
All the Boys Are Called Patrick
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1957 • France
A man makes dates with two women on the same day without realizing that they are best friends.
-
Une histoire d'eau
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut • 1958 • France
In this short film, a young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.
-
Charlotte et son Jules
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1959 • France
A jilted man rants at his mostly silent former lover.
