Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980)
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Drama
aka: Slow Motion

Film Synopsis

Denise Rimbaud gives up her job in television and goes to work on a farm situated beside a lake in the mountains.  She desperately needs a change in her life but she has no idea how difficult and painful it will be for her to extricate herself from the groove she is presently in.  Her ambivalent lover Paul Godard is anxious about leaving the city, anxious that Denise may leave him.  Their relationship has always been violent; they find it easier to inflict blows on each other instead of caressing one another.  Between these two lost souls there is a third, Isabelle Rivière, a country girl who moved to the city to work as a prostitute...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Jean-Luc Godard
  • Script: Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Claude Carrière
  • Cinematographer: Renato Berta, William Lubtchansky, Jean-Bernard Menoud
  • Music: Gabriel Yared
  • Cast: 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), Marie-Luce Felber (Coach), Erik Desfosses (Character), Nicole Wicht (Woman), Claude Champion (Stranger), Gérard Battaz (Motorcyclist)
  • Country: France / Austria / West Germany / Switzerland
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 87 min
  • Aka: Slow Motion ; Every Man for Himself

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