Every Man for Himself

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

1980 / 87min / 35mm

After a decade spent away from character-oriented narrative cinema, making experimental, politically radical video work, Godard picked up the 35mm camera again to produce this, an intoxicating study in aimlessness and alienated labor that he called his “second first film,” with a cast including Jacques Dutronc, Natalie Baye, and Isabelle Huppert, playing, respectively, a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker. A coruscatingly brilliant autopsy of corroded lives and thwarted freedoms under late capitalism from a razor-sharp script by Jean-Claude Carrière and Anne-Marie Miéville, featuring a piquant “appearance” by an offscreen Marguerite Duras.

Introduction from filmmaker Lubna Playoust on Friday, June 14th