- Actors: Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli, Elizabeth Chauvin, Castel Casti
- Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Writers: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Producers: Jacques Dorfmann, Jean-Pierre Rassam
- Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English, French
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Criterion
- DVD Release Date: 15 Feb 2005
- Run Time: 96 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0006Z2NAO
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54,347 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
- #53 in Film & TV > Documentary > Politics
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
A film made during Gorin and Godard's most radical and arguably most creative and original periods. Made four years after '68, the spirit and ideals of the 'New Left' at the time are as strong as ever (in contrast to Eustache's 'La Mamam et la Putain').
Set in a salami factory where the workers have staged a wild cat strike, locking their boss in his office. Fonda and Montand stumble into this situation, which forces them to re-evaluate their work, lives and their relationship in political terms. The CGT try to break up the strike, the boss want to go for a wee - but thee workers wont let him, the communist party is selling books in the supermarket (next to the veg), the young Marxist start a fight and everyone starts helping themselves to the food ("its all free, take what you want!") only to have the CRS turn up and start battering everyone in the clothes department - has to be seen to be belived.
While the details of the particular politics might not interest many, it is however Gorin and Godard's at their best and most sincere, funny, politicaly commited with some great moments; worth buying just to see THE GREATEST tracking shot of all time (the supermarket scene) and Yves Montand seminal monologue.
There aren't many films like this about, I wonder why? - not one your boss would want you to see.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Jane Fonda & Yves Montand are a radical intellectual couple visiting a factory occupation who, along with the boss, get taken hostage by the workers. The film then opens out into an investigation of what has & hasn't changed since the revolutionary events of May 68 - basically portraying France 1972 as in a state of low level civil war: workers against bosses, students against police, militants against communist/union establishment, women against men.
I'm becoming a Godard revisionist! I'll always love his 60s movies & despair at many of his later films. But I'm beginning to think that his very best films are those in the middle, that he made in the 70s immediately after his "comeback": Tout Va Bien, Numero Deux, Slow Motion, Passion. These seem to me genuinely radical films in the issues they address and the way they are filmed. Tout Va Bien was the first of this quartet & like the others is a relatively lucid satire with a sharp Brechtian humour. There are many memorable images, like the scene where Montand & Fonda actually work on the conveyer belt in the hideous but all too real sausage factory. And Godard freaks will enjoy the characteristic long slow tracking shot set-piece filming a revolution in a supermarket!
It's difficult to recommend Tout Va Bien because you must have some interest in this type of film - it is certainly not cool, chic or new wave - but although a self consciously historical film about 1972, it stands up surprisingly well & is still relevant in many ways. This is a very basic DVD (no extras) but it is good that Tout Va Bien, like Slow Motion, is now available on disc because these films may work best as repeated home viewings rather than as a night out at the cinema (fun popcorn movie it aint!).
I'm becoming a Godard revisionist! I'll always love his 60s movies & despair at many of his later films. But I'm beginning to think that his very best films are those in the middle, that he made in the 70s immediately after his "comeback": Tout Va Bien, Numero Deux, Slow Motion, Passion. These seem to me genuinely radical films in the issues they address and the way they are filmed. Tout Va Bien was the first of this quartet & like the others is a relatively lucid satire with a sharp Brechtian humour. There are many memorable images, like the scene where Montand & Fonda actually work on the conveyer belt in the hideous but all too real sausage factory. And Godard freaks will enjoy the characteristic long slow tracking shot set-piece filming a revolution in a supermarket!
It's difficult to recommend Tout Va Bien because you must have some interest in this type of film - it is certainly not cool, chic or new wave - but although a self consciously historical film about 1972, it stands up surprisingly well & is still relevant in many ways. This is a very basic DVD (no extras) but it is good that Tout Va Bien, like Slow Motion, is now available on disc because these films may work best as repeated home viewings rather than as a night out at the cinema (fun popcorn movie it aint!).
Format:DVD
This is an intriguing film which subverts audience perception of how a film should present itself. Goddard's message and politically views are played out on an emphatically colourful canvas. This is a film that deserves to be seen more than once.
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