Probably one of my all time favorite screen characters—female characters, yes—is the sometimes irritating but mostly lucid and honest beyond expectations figure that is Jane Fonda in Godard's 1968 political post-op, Tout Va Bien (1972). Fonda famously plays a journalist for American propagandist radio station who, alongside her older Parisian husband (Yves Montand), a commercial television director, a so-called sell out to the system, is held hostage by striking workers at a sausage factory whose radical actions she goes to report on...I remember taking five hours, an entire day, to watch what in fact comes out to only ninety minutes, enjoying the situational comedy and tense but brutal girl-boss in the cross-fires Francophoness of the film. I love the fullness of Fonda's voice as it tries on the piquancy of the French language, I love her ridiculous mullet, and I love and relate to this reflective and incisive segment, one that cuts straight through to the negotiations of organizational participation, that I found and sent to Patrick earlier today:
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