Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (Lettre À Jane) (1972)
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Initially conceived as a postscript to Godard and Gorin’s "Tout va bien?", "Letter to Jane" took on a life of its own, and continues to incite voracious debate.
Is it a prescient work forecasting the Bono era of celebrity-charity whoring, or is it a malicious and misogynist dig at Jane Fonda, who starred in "Tout va bien/" alongside Yves Montand?
A fifty-two-minute semiotics lesson given by G-G, "Letter to Jane" is a loquacious deconstruction of a now famous photograph depicting an anguished Jane Fonda in Hanoi, which appeared in "L’Express" in 1972.
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