A less heavy handed, less pretentious, more political film from Godard?? Well it is, and it works. May 1968, was a big month for French politics, students taking over administration buildings, the president evacuated, the next french revolution armed and ready...but then, things went back to normal and Jean Luc Godard made a film called "Tout Va Bien" or "Everything's All Right".
It's a film about how complex making a film with a "single' political stance can be, and how absurd, and kinda impossible that is, so instead of the apocalyptic barrage of "Weekend", we get the sober, hang over, of political doubts and inconsistencies on both the right and the left. Big stars like the Fonda's, function as big stars, to entice the audience, but do job performances anyway.
Like many Godard films, it's kind of an essay in film form, but if that kind of thing holds no interest, for you, just ignore this. It's good, and funny, but it's about a very specific place, at a very specific time, through the minds of not one but two very eccentric and at times difficult, artists, in Gorn and Godard, and that probably wont appeal to everyone. Which is fine, movies are good, because of their specificity to individual lives, tastes, and concerns, not their universal appeal to crowds.
It's a film about how complex making a film with a "single' political stance can be, and how absurd, and kinda impossible that is, so instead of the apocalyptic barrage of "Weekend", we get the sober, hang over, of political doubts and inconsistencies on both the right and the left. Big stars like the Fonda's, function as big stars, to entice the audience, but do job performances anyway.
Like many Godard films, it's kind of an essay in film form, but if that kind of thing holds no interest, for you, just ignore this. It's good, and funny, but it's about a very specific place, at a very specific time, through the minds of not one but two very eccentric and at times difficult, artists, in Gorn and Godard, and that probably wont appeal to everyone. Which is fine, movies are good, because of their specificity to individual lives, tastes, and concerns, not their universal appeal to crowds.