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Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980)
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15 October 1980 (France)
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An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations. | add synopsis
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Tao Ruspoli's Top Ten Films of All Time
(From ioncinema. 3 November 2009)
Getting 'Lost,' Week 8: You Know, Like in Cartoons, When You Watch Too Much and Your Eyes Swell?
(From BuddyTV. 21 October 2009, 4:15 AM, PDT)
(From ioncinema. 3 November 2009)
Getting 'Lost,' Week 8: You Know, Like in Cartoons, When You Watch Too Much and Your Eyes Swell?
(From BuddyTV. 21 October 2009, 4:15 AM, PDT)
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Isabelle Huppert | ... | Isabelle Rivière |
 | Jacques Dutronc | ... | Paul Godard |
| Nathalie Baye | ... | Denise Rimbaud |
| Roland Amstutz | ... | Second client |
| Cécile Tanner | ... | Cecile |
| Anna Baldaccini | ... | Isabelle's sister |
| Roger Jendly | ... | 2nd Guy |
| Fred Personne | ... | First client |
| Nicole Jacquet | ... | Woman |
| Dore De Rosa | ... | Elevator Attendant |
| Monique Barscha | ... | Chanteur d'opéra |
| Michel Cassagne | ... | Piaget |
| Paule Muret | ... | Paul's ex-wife |
| Catherine Freiburghaus | ... | Farm Girl |
| Bernard Cazassus | ... | 1st Guy |
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Suicidio!
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Sauve Qui Peut loosely translates as "every man for himself" and as such I guess is Godard's acknowledgment that 1968's dream of a new society is gone and everyone has to get on with the daily grind. The three protagonists try and save themselves in different ways, Natalie Baye through getting back to nature, Huppert through selling herself and the director Paul Godard through his work. Everyone however is ground down by the social relations they must operate within.
As ever Godard leverages as much of his library as he can into the film, with huge chunks of Duras, Bukowski and sundry other writers cut & pasted in. And he plays the usual games with sound and image, juxtaposing them sometimes to beautiful effect, sometimes dissonant, quite often very funny.
A lot of people find Godard's later work somewhat depressing and it's true it mostly lacks the fizz of his early 60's stuff, however there are compensations; he seems to be putting more of his heart as well as his head into the work in later years. There is more than enough here to draw you in and keep you watching for several viewings.