Tout Va Bien
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 15, 2005
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jane Fonda & Yves Montand | |
Performer: | Vittorio Caprioli | |
Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin |
Entertainment Reviews:
One of Godard's angriest satires, but insofar as she is clearly used for her polarizing social freight, Fonda comes off today as its co-creator.
Village Voice
[I]t is full of black wit and stylistic invention....Godard makes vivid use of sound effects and set design...
Sight and Sound
It's only a slight step back from Godard's hard-core political tracts, but the few concessions he does make--characters and a story, of sorts -- go a long way toward making the rhetoric accessible.
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Chicago Reader
Its arguments -- applied to, say, Far East sweatshops -- remain just as relevant today.
Premiere
Accumulating in a mosaic different styles and opposing attitudes, Jean-Luc Godard ends up abandoning his viewers, and worse yet, he also bores them at times. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
A little simplistic at times but acidly funny, with Godard's genius for the arresting image once more well to the fore.
Time Out
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A noble effort to bring anti-bourgeois cinema to the masses; needless to say, the masses stayed home.
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TV Guide
Product Description:
Iconoclastic French director Jean-Luc Godard became radicalized politically after the events of May 1968 in Paris, openly expressing admiration for the writings of Mao Zedong and other leftist leaders. Godard and his cohort, Jean-Pierre Gorin, even formed a Marxist film society, the Dziga Vertov Group, after the early Soviet documentarian. TOUT VA BIEN marked Godard's return to semi-commercial cinema, attempting to blend a relationship narrative centered around a labor strike with an experimental aesthetic and an overtly leftist political rhetoric. Godard took the opportunity to criticize consumer capitalism (a theme he had been exploring at least since 1966's 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER) but also expressed discontent at how little left political organizations accomplished after the euphoria of May 1968. The film features Yves Montand and Jane Fonda (the film was fuel for the fire when Fonda was dubbed "Hanoi Jane" for expressing sympathy for the North Vietnamese), both of whom were major stars at the time. TOUT VA BIEN is both a fascinating avant-garde narrative film as well as an interesting historical-political document.