Tout Va Bien

Director: Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin
Year Released: 1972
Rating: 3.5

I've often accused JLG of being too coy and evasive, so when he (and collaborator Gorin) lays it all out on the table - like he did in 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her... - I sit up and start listening. It's a film in three parts: part one has some fed up workers holding their boss hostage, part two has filmmaker (who sometimes does commercials) Yves Montand (no doubt playing JLG) explain in a painful monologue how he tried not to 'sell-out' (as well as highlight his troubled marriage with Jane Fonda's American broadcaster) and part three features one of Godard's greatest moments, a tracking shot through a giant superstore as a comment on the vast emptiness of consumerism. It's a movie so full of simmering rage and direct in its accusations, that anyone aware of the great rift between the haves and have-nots will certainly acknowledge the monumental disgust - if it were filmed in 3D, it would reach through the set, grab your throat and shake you senseless.