Every Man for Himself

Every Man for Himself follows three people whose lives intersect in a modern city. Denise works in television and decides to leave her job, her partner Paul, and the city for a new life in the countryside. Paul, also a television director, cannot bring himself to make the same break. Isabelle, a young woman supporting herself through sex work, moves into Denise's vacant apartment while trying to find a way out of the city and away from the men who control her. The three stories are loosely linked rather than told as a single continuous narrative.

Jean-Luc Godard directed the film, his seventeenth of twenty-three features in chronological order, arriving between Sympathy for the Devil and First Name: Carmen. Anne-Marie Miéville and Jean-Claude Carrière wrote the screenplay, and Alain Sarde and Godard produced it. Nathalie Baye plays Denise, Jacques Dutronc plays Paul, and Isabelle Huppert plays Isabelle, heading a credited cast of twenty-seven. The film runs eighty-seven minutes and was made as a co-production between France, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, released in October 1980.

On IMDb, the film holds a rating of 6.5 from around 4,300 votes, while on TMDB it has a rating of 6.2 from a much smaller base of roughly 85 votes. The two audience scores sit close to each other, suggesting a similar reception across both audiences.