#275: GODARD, Jean-Luc & GORIN, Jean-Pierre: Tout Va Bien (1972)

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GODARD, Jean-Luc & GORIN, Jean-Pierre (France)
Tout Va Bien [1972]
Spine #275
DVD


In 1972, newly radicalized Hollywood star Jane Fonda joined forces with cinematic innovator Jean-Luc Godard and collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin in an unholy artistic alliance that resulted in Tout va bien (Everything's All Right). This free-ranging assault on consumer capitalism and the establishment left tells the story of a wildcat strike at a sausage factory as witnessed by an American reporter (Fonda) and her has-been New Wave film director husband (Yves Montand). The Criterion Collection is proud to present this masterpiece of radical cinema, a caustic critique of society, marriage, and revolution in post-1968 France.

96 minutes
Color
Monaural
in French
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2005
Director/Writers










The Film

Screenplay by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin.
Godard was 42 and Gorin was 29 when they directed Tout Va Bien.

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

Forty-page booklet featuring essays by film critics J. Hoberman and Kent Jones and Godard biographer Colin MacCabe and an excerpted interview with Gorin and Godard from 1972.

Commentary

None.

Letter to Jane (1972)

Godard and Gorin’s postscript film to Tout va bien.
Video interview 1

From 1972 with Godard.
Video interview 2

With Gorin.
Extras Rating (0-60):

60

60 + 39 =

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