Every Man for Himself
Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: Sauve qui peut [la vie]
Date: January 01, 1980 to December 31, 1980
Dates Note: 1980
Country of Origin:
France
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Switzerland
Place of Origin: France, Switzerland
Languages:
French
Color: Color
Silent: No
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Curator Notes
Film Series/Exhibition Title:
Francis Ford Coppola and 50 Years of American Zoetrope Description:
A shared friendship with former PFA director Tom Luddy brought Jean-Luc Godard and Francis Ford Coppola together (originally for a Bugsy Siegel concept), and led to Zoetrope both helping finance Every Man for Himself and affixing “Francis Ford Coppola Presents” to the titles for its US release. Isabelle Huppert plays a country girl turned prostitute in this lyrical comedy about the selling of the self, which Godard referred to as his “second first film.” (It was his first narrative film after eight years.) “At the end of the film, one’s perceptions have been so enriched, so sharpened, that one leaves invigorated. . . . A stunning, original work” (Vincent Canby, New York Times).
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