Alles in Butter (1972)
14KAlles in Butter: Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin. With Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli, Elizabeth Chauvin. Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.
“After his four-year, self-imposed Maoist/nihilist u0026quot;exile,u0026quot; Godard made a temporary — albeit slight — overture toward conventional commercial (or u0026quot;bourgeois,u0026quot; as Godard called it) cinema by combining a leftist political essay with a dissection of human interaction. Alas, the film fails on both these levels; as a study of the male-female relationship, it is nowhere near u0026quot;Contemptu0026quot; and u0026quot;Masculin-Femininu0026quot;; as a pure Maoist political tract, it is shallow and mind-numingly boring compared to u0026quot;Le Gai Savioru0026quot; and u0026quot;Vladimir and Rosa.u0026quot; Nevertheless, u0026quot;Tout va bienu0026quot; is nonetheless important within Godardu0026#39;s extraordinary body of work, for it marked the beginning of the seven-year process in which his films would gradually shed their ultra-leftist leanings and move towards more universal, humanistic themes, a process that would ultimately cumulate in the excellent u0026quot;Every Man For Himself.u0026quot; Even true Godard aficionados will be as bored as everyone else, but they should nonetheless go out of their way to secure a copy.”
