- Sauve qui peut (la vie)
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director =Jean-Luc Godard
producer = Jean-Luc GodardAlain Sarde
writer =Jean-Claude Carrière
Jean-Luc GodardAnne-Marie Miéville
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starring =Jacques Dutronc Isabelle Huppert Nathalie Baye
music =Gabriel Yared
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released = 1980
runtime = 87 min.
country =France /Austria /West Germany /Switzerland
language = French
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imdb_id = 0079854"Sauve qui peut (la vie)" is a film directed, co-written and co-produced by
Jean-Luc Godard , which premiered atCannes Film Festival in1980 .The film stars
Jacques Dutronc ,Isabelle Huppert , andNathalie Baye . Music is byGabriel Yared . It was filmed inSwitzerland .Baye won her first César, for best supporting artist, in 1981 for her role in the film.
The film represents a return, of sorts, for Godard to cinema after almost a decade of work in video. It continues many of the themes dominant in Godard's work, including prostitution (Huppert's character) and the director's relentless self-questioning, "What does it mean for me to make a movie?" (Dutronc plays a burned out video film-maker named "Godard.") As with much of Godard's work, the film does not follow a conventional narrative, although many viewers would find this film more accessible than some of his later work.
The film is available in the UK on DVD encoded for Region 2 and issued under the title "Slow Motion", a reference to one of the film's most compelling aspects, a periodic slowing down of the action to a frame by frame advancement.
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