Soigne ta droite (1987)
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
aka: Keep Your Right Up

Film Synopsis

Once a popular and highly fashionable cineaste, an ageing filmmaker must now content himself with making films to order, usually for the most dubious of clients.  Known as the Idiot or the Prince, this once committed auteur is now in a position where he can't afford to turn down any offer of work, so he gladly accepts the seemingly impossible task of making a film within a day.  His work done, he then climbs aboard a plane in the hope that he can find someone to buy and exhibit his latest celluloid atrocity.  As he does so, a group of musicians, the Rita Mitsouko, are struggling frantically to complete their next album.  Fortune smiles on the Idiot.  An admiral and his wife are willing to take his reels of film off him, with the intention of screening them on the banks of the River Seine...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Jean-Luc Godard
  • Script: Jean-Luc Godard
  • Cinematographer: Caroline Champetier
  • Cast: Jane Birkin (La cigale), Dominique Lavanant (La femme de l'amiral), Pauline Lafont (La golfeuse), Eva Darlan (La passagère), Isabelle Sadoyan (La grand-mère), Carina Barone (L'Américaine), Catherine Houssay (La première hôtesse), Anny Seneque (La seconde hôtesse), Eloïse Beaune (La maman), Laurence Masliah (L'amoureuse classique), Agnès Sourdillion (La campeuse), Melissa Chartier (La petite fille), Valérie Morat (La femme de chambre), Jacques Villeret (L'individu), François Périer (L'homme), Michel Galabru (L'amiral), Rufus (Le policier), Jean-Luc Godard (L'idiot et le prince), Philippe Khorsand (Le passager), Philippe Rouleau (Le golfeur)
  • Country: France / Switzerland
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 82 min
  • Aka: Keep Your Right Up

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