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Every Man for Himself
Goddard’s view of prostitutes, pimps, bellboys and businessmen
Isabelle Huppert, Every Man for Himself
Jean-Luc Godard’s Sauve qui peut (la vie), which was released as Slow Motion in the UK, and as Every Man for Himself in the U.S., 1980, re-opens this weekend with a new 35 mm print.
The film represents a return, of sorts, for Godard to cinema after almost a decade of work in video. It continues many of the themes dominant in Godard’s work, including prostitution (Huppert’s character) and as with much of Godard’s work, the film doesn’t follow a conventional narrative, yet this film is more accessible than some of his other work.
The film was shot in Switzerland. It stars Jasques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert and Nathalie Baye and the score is by Gabriel yared.
Baye won her first César, for best supporting artist, in 1981 for her role in the film.
The film is issued under the title Slow Motion, a reference to one of the film’s most compelling aspects, a periodic slowing down of the action to a frame by frame advancement.
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