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Keep Your Right Up

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Keep Your Right Up
Directed byJean-Luc Godard
Written byJean-Luc Godard
Produced byPhilippe de Chaisemartin
StarringJacques Villeret
Jean-Luc Godard
Les Rita Mitsouko
François Périer
Dominique Lavanant
Éva Darlan
Rufus
Isabelle Sadoyan
CinematographyCaroline Champetier de Ribes
Edited byJean-Luc Godard
Music byFrancois Musy
Distributed byGaumont
Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
Running time
82 minutes
CountriesFrance
Switzerland
LanguageFrench

Keep Your Right Up (French: Soigne ta droite / Une place sur la terre) is a 1987 film, written, directed by, and starring French Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard.

In boxing, Soigne ta droite is a trainer's call to "keep your right up". The title is a reference to Jacques Tati's first short film, Soigne ton gauche (Keep Your Left Up).

Plot

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Described by Godard as "a fantasy for actor, camera and tape recorder", this film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The film is divided into three sections which inter-cross throughout. In each, a group of people search for their proper place on earth.

In the first, a group of musicians search for the right sound, the ideal harmony. In the second, a man searches for an ideal society and wonders if he is on the wrong planet. In the third, some travellers search for their destination, as Ulysses did in the bygone days.

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