Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980)
(Slow Motion)
Country: FR/SW
Technical: col 87m
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye
Synopsis:
A film-maker leaves his long-term girlfriend, fights with his daughter and ex-wife, and sleeps with a prostitute. The director examines these events from the three perspectives of the main characters, as it were three movements, scoring the whole to an aria from La Gioconda.
Review:
Un film composé par Jean-Luc Godard', as the credits have it. It was supposed to be a return to 'mainstream' film-making and is pretty indistinguishable from what he was doing in the sixties prior to his radical/experimental stuff, save for the device of breaking down movement to resemble slow motion, hence the film's English title. Fairly watchable, and at times amusing in its frankness, it is as always an exercise in ideas (commerce, sexual relations) rather than an exploration of its characters, who are all egotists.
(Slow Motion)
Country: FR/SW
Technical: col 87m
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye
Synopsis:
A film-maker leaves his long-term girlfriend, fights with his daughter and ex-wife, and sleeps with a prostitute. The director examines these events from the three perspectives of the main characters, as it were three movements, scoring the whole to an aria from La Gioconda.
Review:
Un film composé par Jean-Luc Godard', as the credits have it. It was supposed to be a return to 'mainstream' film-making and is pretty indistinguishable from what he was doing in the sixties prior to his radical/experimental stuff, save for the device of breaking down movement to resemble slow motion, hence the film's English title. Fairly watchable, and at times amusing in its frankness, it is as always an exercise in ideas (commerce, sexual relations) rather than an exploration of its characters, who are all egotists.
(Slow Motion)
Country: FR/SW
Technical: col 87m
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye
Synopsis:
A film-maker leaves his long-term girlfriend, fights with his daughter and ex-wife, and sleeps with a prostitute. The director examines these events from the three perspectives of the main characters, as it were three movements, scoring the whole to an aria from La Gioconda.
Review:
Un film composé par Jean-Luc Godard', as the credits have it. It was supposed to be a return to 'mainstream' film-making and is pretty indistinguishable from what he was doing in the sixties prior to his radical/experimental stuff, save for the device of breaking down movement to resemble slow motion, hence the film's English title. Fairly watchable, and at times amusing in its frankness, it is as always an exercise in ideas (commerce, sexual relations) rather than an exploration of its characters, who are all egotists.