Synopsis
“
Fonda was at the height of her fame when she signed on to play an American reporter who, along with her washed-up film director husband (
Montand), covers a strike at a French sausage factory in
Gorin and
Godard’s attack on leftist rhetoric, capitalism and consumer culture. Featuring a justly famous two story cut-away set of the factory (inspired by the bisected boarding house in the 1961
Jerry Lewis film
Ladies Man),
Tout va bien depicts the varying degrees of worker radicalism with caustic humor.
Gorin called it “an historical film. It’s a film about history and its power to transform the individual.”” – Harvard Film Archive