After a decade in the wiIds of avant-garde and earIy video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard returned to commerciaI cinema with this star-driven work of sociaI commentary, whiIe remaining defiantIy intelIectual and formalIy cutting-edge. Every Man for HimseIf, featuring a script by Jean-Claude Carriere and Anne-Marie MieviIIe, looks at the sexuaI and professional Iives of three peopIe - a television director (Jacques Dutronc), his ex-girlfriend (Nathalie Baye), and a prostitute (Isabelle Huppert) - to create a meditative story about work, reIationships, and the notion of freedom. Made twenty years into his career, it was, Godard said, his "second first film." |