TOUT VA BIEN may very well be the most frustrating movie made by the interminably frustrating Jean Luc Godard. Jane Fonda and Yves Montand are the billed stars, but it's Godard's overwrought direction that dominates all. Per usual, he's bashing the bourgeoisie while pretending to stick up for the little man (in this case striking factory workers...makers of sausage no less!) Overzealous camera work aside (Godard does snag at least one technique from Jerry Lewis...he removes the "fourth wall" of the factory and gives a terrific view of multiple floors at once), this is a pretty lifeless movie. The acting is so-so. Fonda is OK, but Montand barely registers. The factory workers shout a lot.
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