Every Man for Himself The Criterion Collection

Product Description After a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard ( Breathless) returned to commercial cinema with this work of social commentary, star-driven and narrative while remaining defiantly intellectual and visually cutting-edge. Every Man for Himself, featuring a script by Jean-Claude Carrière ( The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) and Anne-Marie Miéville ( Ici et ailleurs), looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people—a television producer ( Van Gogh’s Jacques Dutronc), his ex-girlfriend ( The Return of Martin Guerre’s Nathalie Baye), and a prostitute ( White Material’s Isabelle Huppert)—to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom. Made twenty years into his career, the film was, according to Godard, a second debut. Additional Features TWO-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New high-definition digital restoration • Le scenario(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 • PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin