Tout Va Bien

Tout va bien is a 1972 French-Italian political drama film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin and starring Jane Fonda and Yves Montand.

The film centers on a strike at a sausage factory which is witnessed by an American reporter and her French husband, who is a director of TV commercials.

The film has a strong political message which outlines the logic of the class struggle in France in the wake of the May 1968 civil unrest.

Another self-reflexive technique, this particular set was used because it forces the audience to remember that they are witnessing a film, breaking the fourth wall in a literal sense.

Godard and Gorin use other self-reflexive techniques in Tout va bien such as direct camera address, long takes, and abandonment of the continuity editing system.

The factory set in Tout va bien