How's It Going?
1978 · 78 MIN · IMDB 6.0 · 403 VOTES · DIR. Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 798 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:20 What we don't see is what directs.
00:03:24 - You said to go right? - Yes, that's it.
00:06:04 that it would be the first real film of the Alliance of the Left.
00:09:24 As a union delegate you've no right to say that a working conflict is simple.
00:12:07 Well, a prime printing house.
00:15:03 See that...
00:17:58 The image of these soldiers in uniform...
00:21:49 and then the typewriter.
00:25:01 A guy i know. Works at Thomson Corporation.
00:27:47 and it was that revolt that i had cut.
00:31:26 fist moving forward...
00:34:40 Hands...
00:37:04 begin something complex.
00:40:08 "But how come?', you wondered, "She's a good girl".
00:42:47 Fascist night...
00:46:28 You don't see unemployment, you don't see women.
00:50:11 i did what i'd been told.
00:53:15 which Colette had collected as documentation.
00:56:27 The image which more than one German person dreams about at night.
01:00:41 but never how i was part of the story, of history. As a result...
01:04:04 We didn't say so because we didn't know.
01:07:19 And i'm being watched.
01:10:16 What's wrong with you?
01:13:52 Maybe she would finish the little video film somewhere else
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed798
Dialogue density10.2 lines / min
First line00:00:20
Final line01:13:52
Production Record
DirectorAnne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes403