Every Man For Himself

After years of Maoist polemics and made-for-TV obscurities, Jean-Luc Godard marked his return to relatively accessible cinema with a film that explores money, prostitution, masculine violence, and the relationship between sound and image--all familiar Godardian concerns. For the first time since 1972's TOUT VA BIEN (which featured Yves Montand and Jane Fonda), Godard elected to use stars in his film, casting Isabelle Huppert as a high-priced Swiss hooker who caters to some notably bizarre tastes. An especially memorable scene shows Huppert servicing her businessman clients in an elaborate sexual daisy chain--a kind of Rube Goldberg sex machine that figures the mech...