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Every Man For Himself

1980, Movie, NR, 87 mins

Every Man For Himself: Review

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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 mechanization of desire under capitalism. One of the film's alternate titles, SLOW MOTION, is derived from Godard's recurrent use of stretch-printed/freeze-framed images. At this point in Godard's career, his desire to use stars in ways critical of stardom coincided aptly with his choice of subject matter, especially in the never-made THE STORY, a gangster film about Hollywood that was to have been shot at Coppola's Zoetrope Studios with Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, and Marlon Brando. Unfortunately, this never made it past the storyboard stage. leave a comment
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