A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.
Direction
Godard's giant supermarket set — capitalism as literal stage.
Acting
Fonda's furious final monologue, career-peak intensity.
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Godard and Gorin formed the Dziga Vertov Group specifically to make 'political films politically' — this was their most accessible, which isn't saying much.
Fonda was at peak Hanoi Jane controversy; Godard reportedly cast her precisely to weaponize her radical credibility against itself.
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