Every Man for Himself

Sauve qui peut (la vie) (original)

6.5

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1h 27mDrama Documentary

After a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard returned to commercial cinema with this star-driven work of social commentary, while remaining defiantly intellectual and formally cutting-edge. Every Man for Himself, featuring a script by Jean-Claude Carrière and Anne-Marie Miéville, looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people—a television director (Jacques Dutronc), his ex-girlfriend (Nathalie Baye), and a prostitute (Isabelle Huppert)—to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom. Made twenty years into his career, it was, Godard said, his “second first film.”

Spoken language: fr

Starring Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye, Cécile Tanner, Anna Baldaccini, Roland Amstutz, Serge Desarnaulds, Marguerite Duras

Watch "Every Man for Himself" from streaming services Criterion Channel, Apple TV+ (itunes) released in 1980. It's a drama and documentary movie, and has a rating of 6.5 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.