Every Man For Himself/Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) (Godard, 1980): Cine Lumiere, 6.30pm
This is a 35mm presentation (also being screened on February 12th) and part of the Jean-Luc Godard season at Cine Lumiere. You can find all the details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Jean-Luc Godard calls this 1980 production, Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie),
his “second first film”—which means both a return to narrative after
his brilliant documentary-theoretical work in the 70s and a complete
clearing of the decks. You feel him questioning his entire life here,
his most basic impulses and ideals, and his honesty is devastating; he
emerges as a hollow man, trapped between the limitations of his politics
and his sexuality, with barely enough ego left to imagine his own
death. Of course, the film’s substantial artistry belies Godard’s
self-negation: with his formal, four-part ordering of the narration, the
tension he establishes and exploits between sound track and image, and
his use of slow motion to analyze and abstract the action, Godard pulls
an aesthetic victory from the jaws of utter nihilism.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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