![]() ![]() Completed in 1979 and distributed worldwide in 1980, it was dubbed by Godard “my second first film,” coming exactly twenty years after his debut feature, Breathless (1960), upended cinematic language and made way for the jump cut, rampant image and language quotation, and the neonoir.īreathless began Godard’s extraordinary run of the 1960s-seventeen features in ten years, many of them masterpieces that retain their unsettling formal beauty and emotional power today. An occasionally hilarious and almost as often grief-stricken social satire in which an asshole TV director named Paul Godard is the butt of the joke, Every Man for Himself marked Jean-Luc Godard’s return to making 35 mm feature films for theatrical release, after devoting himself in the 1970s to political critiques and series television produced on 16 mm and video. ![]()
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