The many faces of a woman trying to find herself.
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
- Bleak ending
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- classical in formformally daring
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- CRCulveron TMDB · Sep 20189/10
<i>Vivre sa vie</i> was Jean-Luc Godard's fourth feature film. The protagonist Nana (Anna Karina) is a young Parisian woman who is not especially bright, but full of life and endowed with great beauty. Unable to make ends meet by working at a record shop, and unable to break into films as she dreams, she starts to work as a prostitute. Postwar French law permitted prostitution, with certain rules and regulations that the film explains in a documentary-like segment. Nana, who yearns to live her life according to her own desires, initially thinks that this new profession has set her free from cares. In fact, Nana's liberation from penury through prostitution only subjects her to new constraints imposed by her pimp and clientele. The film, divided into twelve tableaux with fade-to-black transitions that quicken as it goes on (which one commentator compares to breathing faster and faster) brings us to one of the most shocking endings I have ever seen. This is a superlative film. Clocking in at 85 minutes, it lasts exactly as long as its story demands, with not a single moment that feels superfluous. Everything fits together, perfectly even things that ought to seem extraneous, the over
Read the whole review on TMDB - badelfon TMDB · Oct 20229/10
It's Jean-Luc Godard at the avant-garde of filmmaking. It's a brilliant film with so many new ideas for early the 60s. What else is there to say?
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Cast
- Anna KarinaNana Kleinfrankenheim
- Sady RebbotRaoul
- André S. LabarthePaul
- Guylaine SchlumbergerYvette
- Gérard HoffmannChef
- Monique MessineElisabeth
- Paul PavelJournalist
- Dimitri DineffDimitri
- Peter KassovitzYoung Man
- Eric SchlumbergerLuigi
Crew
- Jean-Luc GodardDirector
- Jean-Luc GodardWriter
- Raoul CoutardDirector of Photography
- Michel LegrandOriginal Music Composer
- Jean-Luc GodardEditor
- Agnès GuillemotEditor
- Pierre BraunbergerProducer
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