Every Man for Himself
Every Man for Himself • 1h 28m
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.”
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Scénario de SAUVE QUI PEUT (LA VIE)
In 1979, director Jean-Luc Godard submitted the following 20-minute video to the Centre national du cinéma, in place of a screenplay, to secure financing for his new film, EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF.
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Sound, Image and EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF
In the following 2015 video essay, film historian Colin MacCabe explores the way filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard plays with sound and image in EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF.
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