Tout Va Bien **** [All’s Well] (1972, Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli) – Classic Movie Review 6068

Jane Fonda (as Her, Suzanne) and Yves Montand (as Him, Jacques) play a reporter and an ad-director couple in Paris, who reappraise their revolutionary views during the course of a factory-workers’ strike.

Writer-directors Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin’s 1972 French satire on commitment, compromise and the cinema is tart, provocative, and well observed. Tout Va Bien manages to be more accessible than most Godard films without diluting his offbeat originality.

Thoughtful and intelligent, though possibly alienating, it is a must for film studies, though, of course, it won’t be everyone’s tasse de té.

Also in the cast are Vittorio Caprioli (as the Factory Manager), Jean Pignol, Anne Wiazemsky (as Leftist woman), Louis Bugette, Eric Chartier, Castel Costi, Yves Gabrielli and Pierre Oudrey.

Tout Va Bien (also known as All’s Well) is directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, runs 95 minutes, is made by Anouchka, Vicco and Empire, is released by The Other Cinema and New Yorker, is written by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, is shot by Armand Marco, produced by Jean-Pierre Rassam, scored by Paul Beuscher, Eric Charden and Thomas Rivat, and designed by Jacques Dugied.

RIP Anne Wiazemsky, who died on 5 October 2017, aged 70.

© Derek Winnert 2017 Classic Movie Review 6068

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