Letter to Jane

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| name = Letter to Jane

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| caption =Jane Fonda in a L'Express photograph, as used in Letter to Jane.

| director = Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Pierre Gorin

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| released = {{Film date|1972}}

| runtime = 52 Minutes

| language = French

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Letter to Jane is a 1972 French postscript film to Tout Va Bien directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin and made under the auspices of the Dziga Vertov Group. Narrated in a back-and-forth style by both Godard and Gorin, the film serves as a 52-minute cinematic essay that deconstructs a single news photograph of Jane Fonda in Vietnam. This was Godard and Gorin's final collaboration.

Susan Sontag described Letter to Jane as, "a model lesson on how to read any photograph, how to decipher the un-innocent nature of a photograph’s framing, angle, focus."{{cite web |last1=Ulman |first1=Erik |title=Gorin, Jean-Pierre |url=https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/gorin/ |publisher=Senses of Cinema |access-date=21 March 2025}} However, the film was described by some critics, including Laura Mulvey, as misogynistic.{{cite web |last1=Dawson |first1=Jonathan |title=Letter to Jane |url=https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/cteq/letter-2/ |publisher=CTEQ Annotations on Film |access-date=21 March 2025 |date=March 2002}} Fonda herself later called the film "a big pile of bullshit."Handler, Rachel (May 26, 2023). "[https://www.vulture.com/2023/05/90-minutes-of-jane-fonda-admitting-the-truth-about-hollywood.html 90 Minutes of Jane Fonda Confessing the Truth About Hollywood]". Vulture.

Release

In 2005, the film was made available as an extra on the Tout va Bien DVD released by the Criterion Collection.

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