As the state of France is inscribed on the body of women in the 60s, now a woman's body symbolizes the change. In 1967, the apotheosis of American influence was achieved in Roger's film version of Jean-Claude Forest's sic-fi erotic comic strip,Barbarella, which starred Amercian actress Jane Fonda as robotic sex object. But by 1972, when Fonda returned to French film in Tout va bien, her role was that of an earnest, feminist journalist.(Jill Forbes, Pierrot le fou and Post-New Wave Cinema.)
其实早在1965年戈达尔的Pierrot le fou就已经显露出了反主流的关注国内问题的尝试,尽管同样具有越战,美国士兵等国际政治元素,但戈达尔则倾向于将这一看似远在越南的战争带入在法国的男男女女的生活中去,其1967年的Loin du Vietnam更强调了国际事件对于法国本土人的生活的影响以及每一位法国人为之应负的责任。
因而,72年,当当年的巴巴丽娜﹣简方达以一位女性主义记者的形象出现在探讨国内问题的Tout va bien中时,法国电影的"the long love affair with American popular fiction and popular cinema" had definitely ended.