• Source: Tout Va Bien

Tout va bien is a 1972 French-Italian political drama 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 going well". It was released in the United States under the title All's Well and internationally under the title Just Great.
The Godard/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 director of TV commercials. The film has a strong political message which outlines the logic of the class struggle in France in the wake of the May 1968 civil unrest. It also examines 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 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. 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.




Cast


Jane Fonda as Susan Dewitt, an American reporter
Yves Montand as her husband
Vittorio Caprioli as the factory manager
Elizabeth Chauvin as Genevieve
Éric Chartier as Lucien
Jean Pignol as the union representative
Anne Wiazemsky as a leftist worker




References






External links


Tout va bien at IMDb
Tout va bien at AllMovie
Tout va bien Revisited an essay by J. Hoberman at the Criterion Collection

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Claude Mouriéras
• Saint Pierre Yaméogo
• Yves Montand
• Jean-Luc Godard
• Jean Brochard
• Jane Fonda
• Anggun C. Sasmi
• Tout Va Bien
• Tout va bien (disambiguation)
• Jusqu'ici tout va bien
• Tout va bien (Alonzo song)
• Jean-Pierre Gorin
• Al otro barrio
• Letter to Jane
• La Haine
• Julien Boisselier
• Jean-Pierre Rassam