Tout Va Bien

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Tout va bien
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Pierre Gorin
Starring Jane Fonda
Yves Montand
Release dates February 13, 1973
Running time 95 min.
Country Italy / France
Language French

Tout va bien is a 1972 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin and starring Jane Fonda and Yves Montand.

The film's title means "Everything is Fine." It was released in the United States under the title "All's Well" and internationally under the title "Just Great."[1]

The Godard and Gorin collaboration continued with the featurette Letter to Jane as a postscript to Tout va bien.

Overview

The film centers on a strike at a sausage factory which is witnessed by an American reporter and her French husband, who is a film director. The film has a strong political message which outlines the logic of the class struggle in France during the revolution. It also exploits the social destruction caused by capitalism. The performers in Tout va bien employ the Brechtian technique of distancing themselves from the audience. By delivering an opaque performance, the actors draw the audience away from the film's diegesis and towards broader inferences about the film's meaning.

The factory set in Tout va bien.
The factory set consists of a cross-sectioned building and allows the camera to dolly back and forth from room to room, theoretically through the walls. Another self-reflexive technique, this particular set was used because it forces the audience to remember that they are witnessing a film, breaking the fourth wall in a literal sense. This type of staging was also used in Jerry Lewis's film The Ladies Man. Godard and Gorin use other self-reflexive techniques in Tout va bien such as direct camera address, long takes, and abandonment of the continuity editing system.

References

  1. ↑ Release dates for Tout va bien at IMDb.

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