Letter to Jane is a 1972 French 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.
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| Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Pierre Gorin |
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Running time | 52 Minutes |
| Language | French |
Susan Sontag described Letter to Jane as, "a model lesson on how to read any photograph, how to decipher the un-innocent nature of a photograph’s framing, angle, focus."[1] However, the film was described by some critics, including Laura Mulvey, as misogynistic.[2] Fonda herself later called the film "a big pile of bullshit."[3]
Release
editIn 2005, the film was made available as an extra on the Tout va Bien DVD released by the Criterion Collection.
References
edit- ^ Ulman, Erik. "Gorin, Jean-Pierre". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- ^ Dawson, Jonathan (March 2002). "Letter to Jane". CTEQ Annotations on Film. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- ^ Handler, Rachel (May 26, 2023). "90 Minutes of Jane Fonda Confessing the Truth About Hollywood". Vulture.
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