Every Man for Himself (1980)

Original title

Sauve qui peut (la vie)

Directed by

Jean-Luc Godard

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 80 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three people encounter one another in Switzerland. A woman tries to leave her relationship. A film director struggles with his work. A prostitute navigates her life. The story is told in three movements, each centered on one character.

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What happens

Every Man for Himself (French: Sauve qui peut (la vie)) is a 1980 drama film directed, co-written and co-produced by Jean-Luc Godard that is set in and was filmed in Switzerland. It stars Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, and Nathalie Baye, with a score by Gabriel Yared. Nathalie Baye won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress. It also was submitted as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 53rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Constructed as a musical piece, it has a prologue followed by three movements, each of which focuses on one of the three key characters and their interactions with the others, and ends with a coda. Throughout the film an unnamed piece of music recurs, which is the aria Suicidio! (Suicide!) from the opera La Gioconda by Ponchielli. Serving as leitmotiv for the whole story, it underscores the innate death-wish haunting the central character. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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