Sauve qui peut (la vie) = Every man for himself / Janus Films ; Gaumont présente ; Sara Films, MK2, Saga Producktion, Sonimage, CNC, ZDF, SSR, ORF ; un film composé par Jean-Luc Godard ; scénario, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Claude Carrière.
Edition:
Two-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
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. DVD release of the 1980 motion picture. 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.
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.
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