Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Sweden
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.
- suicide
- paris
- france
- students' movement
- politics
- pop culture
- menage a trois
- interview
- magazine
- aspiring singer
- singer
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Paul
Chantal Goya
Madeleine Zimmer
Marlène Jobert
Élisabeth Choquet
Michel Debord
Robert Packard
- Catherine-Isabelle Duport — Catherine-Isabelle
- Evabritt Strandberg — She (Woman in the Film)
- Birger Malmsten — He (Man in the Film)
- Yves Afonso — Man Who Kills Himself (uncredited)
- Henri Attal — The Other Porn Book Reader (uncredited)
- Mickey Baker — Record Producer (uncredited)
- Brigitte Bardot — Brigitte Bardot (uncredited)
- Antoine Bourseiller — Brigitte Bardot's Director (uncredited)
- Chantal Darget — Woman in the Subway (uncredited)
- Françoise Hardy — American Officer's Wife (uncredited)
- Med Hondo — Man in the Subway (uncredited)
- Directed
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Written
- Jean-Luc Godard
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 427 ratings
- Studio
- SF Studios, Sandrews, Anouchka Films, Argos films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
