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Vivre Sa Vie

Vivre Sa Vie

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Summary

Nana leaves her husband and infant son hoping to find fame as an actress, but when she runs out of money her dream of becoming a film star collapses and she drifts into prostitution. Jean-Luc Godard's drama, starring Anna Karina. In French

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Review

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Adrian Turner

Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave masterpiece concerns a prostitute who maintains a sort of spiritual integrity before falling victim to gangsters. Abandoning conventional narrative, Godard offers the story as 12 chapters and names his heroine Nana, after Zola's heroine; he also has her go to the cinema to see Carl Theodor Dreyer's legendary silent classic about another martyr, Joan of Arc. The then frank depiction of sex earned the film a certain notoriety, not to mention the attention of the British film censor. Now, though, what's most noticeable is Godard's technique and cameraman Raoul Coutard's luminous filming of Anna Karina, who had just become the director's wife and here gives a marvellous performance.

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7.8/10

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Cast

rolenameNana KleinfrankenheimAnna KarinaRaoulSady RebbotPaulAndré S LabartheYvetteGuylaine SchlumbergerCookGérard HoffmanElizabethMonique MessineJournalistPaul PavelVoiceJean-Luc GodardPhilosopherBrice Parain

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rolenameDirectorJean-Luc Godard

Details

Theatrical distributor

Miracle Films Ltd

Released on

2002-07-19

Languages

French

Guidance

Brief sex scenes, nudity.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Black and white

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