Revisit: Tout Va Bien - Spectrum Culture

Revisit: Tout Va Bien - Spectrum Culture

By 1972, Jean-Luc Godard was no longer making films. At least, he was no longer making films as he and his colleagues of the “French New Wave” had been making films — or, “bourgeois cinema,” as Godard had come to know it. Finished with his initial decade of inventive and metatextual classics, the Godard who stepped behind the camera to shoot his 16th feature was a new kind of filmmaker, one with an expressed interest in making films not simply a…