Tout Va Bien
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Tout va bien | |
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Directed by | director |
Written by | writer |
Produced by | producer |
Starring | Yves Montand Jane Fonda Vittorio Caprioli |
Narrated by | narrator |
Cinematography | Armand Marco |
Music by | Paul Beuscher |
Production companies | Anouchka Films Vieco Films Empire Films |
Distributed by | distributor |
Release dates |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Countries | France Italy |
Languages | French, English |
Tout va bien is a 1972 French-Italian political drama film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin and starring Jane Fonda and Yves Montand.[1]
The film's title means "everything is going well". It was released in the United States under the title All's Well and internationally under the title Just Great.
The Godard/Gorin collaboration continued with the featurette Letter to Jane as a postscript to Tout va bien.
Overview
The film centers on a strike at a sausage factory which is witnessed by an American reporter and her French husband, who is a director of TV commercials. The film has a strong political message which outlines the logic of the
The factory set consists of a cross-sectioned building and allows the camera to dolly back and forth from room to room, theoretically through the walls. Another self-reflexive technique, this particular set was used because it forces the audience to remember that they are witnessing a film, breaking the fourth wall in a literal sense. This type of staging was appropriated from Jerry Lewis's film The Ladies Man. Godard and Gorin use other self-reflexive techniques in Tout va bien such as direct camera address, long takes, and abandonment of the continuity editing system.
References
- ^ "Tout va bien". cinematheque.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 February 2024.
External links
- Tout va bien at IMDb
- Tout va bien at AllMovie
- Tout va bien Revisited an essay by Criterion Collection