SCREENING SATURDAY 7th MARCH

Having declared the end of cinema at the end of Weekend, Godard embraced a yet more experimental aesthetic with the Dziga Vertov Group, formed with leftist radical Jean-Pierre Gorin; Tout va bien marks the stylistic mid-point between the collective’s Brechtian approach to political discourse and Godard’s more accessible work of the 1980s. Suzanne (Jane Fonda), an American journalist, and her French husband Jacques (Yves Montand), a has-been New Wave filmmaker, become embroiled in an escalating strike in a sausage factory. The cross-sectioned factory set is itself a marvel of innovative production design. 

Notes by David O’Mahony

Screening as part of Truth, 24 Frames per Second: The Films of Jean-Luc Godard