How's It Going?

How's It Going? (1978)

Comment ça va ?

WHAT WE DON'T SEE IS WHAT DIRECTS.

During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist activist discuss how to present their information, especially how to caption two specific images: one of a protest in Portugal, the other of a strike in France. One of them decides to write to his son, a manual worker living outside of Paris with his girlfriend, telling the young man about his troubles.

Date of release
1978-04-26
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Drama
Director
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville

Casting

Interesting facts

How's It Going is a French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville in 1975, released at the Cannes Film Festival in 1976 and then in French cinemas in 1978. It is the third film made by the couple that year, marking their move from Paris to Grenoble.

Production

The idea for the film was born in Paris, in the offices of the newspaper Libération, when, in mid-September 1975, Godard was discussing with about ten editors a photo published in the press: it was the black and white snapshot contained in a report on the Carnation Revolution that had overthrown fascism in Portugal the previous April.

The first act is the observation that television has won the war against cinema, and that as a result everything goes faster: "We go slower, we have to break it down," says Miéville's voice, and again: "Starting from an image, from a single one, like an atom, to see how it moves and how it all is."

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