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Keep Your Right Up! (Soigne Ta Droite)

 

  Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

France-Switzerland 1987 / Comedy/ 82 min / Color / Monaural / 1.33: 1 / NTSC /  In French with English Subtitles
Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique Lavanant, Jacques Villeret, Les Rita Mitsouko, Fran็ois Perier, Jane Birkin, Michel Galabru 

Jean-Luc Godard wrote, directed, and starred in this offbeat comedy. He appears as a bumbling cinematographer who drops film cannisters as he rushes to a screening, and he and others board a plane helmed by a pilot who is reading a self-help book about suicide. A philosophical narration accompanies scenes of recurring imagery. A man dancing with a woman, the vapor trail of a jet against the sky, and a dead man with a huge knife in his belly are used along with a glass door being slammed in a little girl's face.

This episodic comedy is a brilliant homage to Jerry Lewis. Keep Your Right Up! features hilarious gags involving golf and travel, and some "ravishing images"