EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (1980)
[SAUVE QUI PEUT (LA VIE)]
TV director Paul Godard (Jacques Dutronc), divorced and now separated from his current girlfriend Denise (Nathalie Baye), meets prostitute Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert) and takes her on as a tenant — and she, him as a client — in his and Denise’s abandoned apartment. A man slipping into an epically surreal midlife crisis, Paul doesn’t understand the women in his life, be they his ex-wife, his daughter, his ex-girlfriend or the seemingly happy hooker Isabelle; and lashes out periodically in acts of violence, passion, aggressively poor-taste humor and combinations of all three. But the entropic, corrupt on-screen universe director Jean-Luc Godard depicts here only seems to encourage such behavior. “Establishing the template which would make the ’80s Godard’s second great decade, EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF stitches together a dense fabric of spoken and visual references, employing oblique quotes and strange cameos to create a work of twitchy brilliance.” – Jesse Cataldo, SLANT Magazine. DIR/PROD Jean-Luc Godard; SCR Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Claude Carrière; PROD Alain Sarde. France/Switzerland/West Germany/Austria, 1980, color, 87 min. In French with English subtitles. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 87 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, August 27, 2023
Genre: Drama
