1972 · politics · labor · drama
Tout Va Bien
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin1h 35m1972
A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.
Our read: Tout Va Bien (1972) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal politics · labor · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured politics / labor, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- surreal
- signature
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