Title
Every man for himself = Sauve qui peut (la vie) / Gaumont présente ; Sara Films, MK2, Saga Produktion, Sonimage, CNC, ZDF, SSR, ORF ; un film composé par Jean-Luc Godard ; scénario, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Claude Carrière.
Notes
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1980.
Special features: Scénario de "Sauve qui peut (la vie)" (1979, a short video created by director Jean-Luc Godard); Sound, image and Every man for himself (video essay by film historian/critic Colin MacCabe); Jean-Luc Godard on The Dick Cavett Show (two 1980 episodes of the The Dick Cavett Show); Godard 1980 (a short film by Jon Jost, Donald Ranvaud, and Peter Wollen in association with the magazine Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media); Interviews: Marin Karmitz, Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye, Renato Berta and William Lubtchansky, Gabriel Yared; Trailer. Insert features an essay by critic Amy Taubin.
Editors, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard ; art director, Romain Goupil ; cinematographers, William Lubtchansky, Renato Berta, Jean-Bernard Menoud ; composer, Gabriel Yared.
In French, with optional subtitles in English.
Summary
This looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people: a television producer, his ex-girlfriend, and a prostitute, to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom.
Credits
Editors, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard ; art director, Romain Goupil ; cinematographers, William Lubtchansky, Renato Berta, Jean-Bernard Menoud ; composer, Gabriel Yared.
Cast
Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, Roland Amstutz, Anna Baldaccini, Fred Personne, Nicole Jacquet, Dore de Rosa, Monique Barscha, Cécile Tanner, Roger Jendly, Michel Cassagne, Paule Muret, Catherine Freiburghaus, Edmond Vuilloud, Bernard Cazassus, Eric Desfossés, Irène Floersheim, Nicole Wicht, Claude Champion, Gérard Battaz, Angelo Napoli, Serge Maillard, Marie-Luce Felber, Georgiana Eaton, Guy Lavoro, Michèle Gleiser, Maurice Buffat, Michel Moulin.
Genre/Form
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Feature films - France.
Feature films - Austria.
Feature films - Germany (West).
Foreign language films - French.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Motion pictures - France.
Drama.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Motion pictures, French.