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 .
7-471: The film's title means "everything is going well". It was released in the United States under the title All's Well and internationally under the title Just Great . The Godard/Gorin collaboration continued with the featurette Letter to Jane as a postscript to Tout va bien . The film centers on a strike at a sausage factory which is witnessed by an American reporter and her French husband, who
14-535: A feature film . Hence, it is a "small feature" (the ending " -ette " is a common diminutive suffix derived from French ), and in fact featurettes were sometimes called "streamlined features". Featurette was commonly used from before the start of the sound era into the 1960s, when films of such length as the Hal Roach's Streamliners —and several French films of that length—ceased being made, or were made as experimental or art films and subsumed under
21-609: 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. It also examines the social destruction caused by capitalism. The performers in Tout va bien employ the Brechtian technique of distancing themselves from the audience. By delivering an opaque performance, the actors draw
28-456: The American film industry , a featurette is a kind of film that is shorter than a full-length feature , but longer than a short film . The term may refer to either of two types of content: a shorter film or a companion film. A featurette is a film usually of three to four reels in length, or about 22–43 minutes in running time, thus longer than a two-reel short subject but shorter than
35-404: The audience away from the film's diegesis and towards broader inferences about the film's meaning. The factory set consists of a cross-sectioned building and allows the camera to dolly back and forth from room to room, theoretically through the walls. Another self-reflexive technique, this particular set was used because it forces the audience to remember that they are witnessing a film, breaking
42-437: 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. This 1970s drama film–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a French film of the 1970s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Featurette In
49-454: The more general rubric of short film . Some featurettes are still being produced, notably the action comedy Kung Fury , which runs only 31 minutes. Other terms with a similar meaning include: medium-length films , long shorts and short features . After the advent of DVD technology, the term also gained the meaning of "a brief documentary film covering one or more aspects of the film creation process". In DVD features descriptions,
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