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 intellectual and formally cutting-edge. Every Man for Himself, featuring a script by Jean-Claude Carrière and Anne-Marie Miéville, looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people—a television director (Jacques Dutronc), his ex-girlfriend (Nathalie Baye), and a prostitute (Isabelle 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 film.”
SPECIAL FEATURES
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Scénario de “Sauve qui peut (la vie)” (1979), a short video created by director Jean-Luc Godard to secure financing for Every Man for Himself
- New video essay by critic Colin MacCabe
- New interviews with actor Isabelle Huppert and producer Marin Karmitz
- Archival interviews with actor Nathalie Baye, cinematographers Renato Berta and William Lubtchansky, and composer Gabriel Yared
- Two back-to-back 1980 appearances by Godard on The Dick Cavett Show
- Godard 1980, a short film by Jon Jost, Donald Ranvaud, and Peter Wollen, featuring Godard
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin
New cover by Fred Davis