Sauve qui peut la vie
Ciné Lumière17 Queensberry Place, London
Sun 27 Sept · 10:10 · £11
About this event
Featuring a script by Jean-Claude Carrière and Anne-Marie Miéville, Sauve qui peut (la vie) ( Every Man for Himself ), looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people; a television director (Jacques Dutronc), his ex-girlfriend (Nathalie Baye), and a prostitute (Isabelle Huppert); to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom. The film’s English surtitle Slow Motion , eponymously, gives us some of the most remarkable freeze-frames in contemporary cinema; Nathalie Baye’s cycling scenes in the film form part of Godard’s stop-start visual motif, where the actress exists both in-motion and immortalised, as if frozen in time. Made twenty years into his career, it was – Godard said – his “second first film.” Nathalie Baye was awarded Best Supporting Actress at the César 1980.
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17 Queensberry Place, London
10:10Sun 27 Sept· £11
12:50Sun 27 Sept
16:00Tue 29 Sept
18:10Thu 1 Oct
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