After a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard returned to commercial cinema with this star-driven work of social commentary, while remaining defiantly intelIectual and formalIy cutting-edge. Every Man for HimseIf, featuring a script by Jean-Claude Carriere and Anne-Marie MievilIe, Iooks at the sexuaI and professionaI Iives of three peopIe - a television director (Jacques Dutronc), his ex-girIfriend (NathaIie Baye), and a prostitute (lsabelle Huppert) - to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom. Made twenty years into his career, it was, Godard said, his "second first fiIm." |