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  • Directors: Jean-Luc Godard; Jean-Pierre Gorin
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Avant-garde / Experimental
  • Movie Type: Anti-War Film, Essay Film
  • Release Year: 1972
  • Country: FR
  • Run Time: 52 minutes

Plot

Letter to Jane consists of a series of still photographs in which filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin read aloud a letter to actress Jane Fonda. The occasion for Godard and Gorin's letter is a widely publicized photograph of Fonda in North Vietnam which caught the filmmakers' eye because Fonda had appeared in a previous film of theirs entitled Tout va bien. The filmmakers criticize what they see as Fonda's attempt to lend aid to the North Vietnamese using only her celebrity status. In Letter to Jane, Godard investigates the politics of image by using the cinema to interrogate photographs. Godard's and Gorin's reflections are strongly marked by the ideology of their Maoist film collective, the Dziga Vertov Group. ~ Louis Schwartz, All Movie Guide

Credit

Jean-Luc Godard - Director, Jean-Pierre Gorin - Director
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Letter to Jane

Jane Fonda in a L'Express photograph, as used in Letter to Jane.
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Pierre Gorin
Starring Jane Fonda
Yves Montand
Release date(s) 1972
Running time 52
Language French

Letter to Jane (1972) is a postscript film to Tout va bien directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin and made under the auspices of the Dziga Vertov Group. Narrated in a back-and-forth style by both Godard and Gorin, the film serves as a 52-minute cinematic essay that deconstructs a single news photograph of Jane Fonda in Vietnam. This was Godard and Gorin's final collaboration.

In 2005, the film was made available as an extra on the Tout va Bien DVD released by the Criterion Collection.

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