Tout va bien

Followed by a discussion with Jean-Pierre Gorin and David Fresko

A “Groucho” Marxist riff on the Chicago 8 conspiracy trial is one of the Dziga Vertov Group’s most theoretically dense and comedically outrageous works. Godard and Gorin both appear and partake in this burlesque comedy to the fullest, which thoroughly mocks the U.S. justice system as well as the American New Left. Paired with Godard in America, a documentary following Godard and Gorin on a Grove Press-sponsored US college tour.

Followed by a conversation with Jean-Pierre Gorin and Kent Jones

Renoir’s people’s love story and immigrant tale, propelled by crime and tragedy, was shot on location in Southern France, a region not often showed on screen to that time. Renoir, always leading with his heart, remarkably presents themes and style predating their adoption by major cinematic movements, namely Neo-Realism and the New Wave.

Introduced by Jean-Pierre Gorin

One of France’s greatest filmmakers, and long overlooked abroad in favor of his contemporaries, Grémillon made a series of films as strong as any in the heady days of the 30s and early 40s Gallic film production. Among many masterpieces, this poetic melodrama, made under the Occupation, is of a pair with Toni in their analysis of class, as Jean-Pierre Gorin will discuss.

In a seaside town, desolate and shuttered for the winter, a stranger arrives. Soon, a second man appears, and the perfect set up for a neat little drama is underway. The underknown Allégret contributes a late era twist on French realism, which will be a significant discovery for many.