Vivre sa vie

Vivre sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux (To Live Her Life: A Film in Twelve Scenes) is a 1962 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It was released in the U.S. as My Life to Live and in the UK as It's My Life. The film stars Anna Karina, Godard's then wife, as Nana, a young Parisian woman who abandons her marriage and a child in order to pursue a career as an actress. Faced with financial troubles she drifts into prostitution. Nana believes she makes th... more

Vivre sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux (To Live Her Life: A Film in Twelve Scenes) is a 1962 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It was released in the U.S. as My Life to Live and in the UK as It's My Life. The film stars Anna Karina, Godard's then wife, as Nana, a young Parisian woman who abandons her marriage and a child in order to pursue a career as an actress. Faced with financial troubles she drifts into prostitution. Nana believes she makes this choice of her own free will, but the film emphasizes the social structure that forces the poor into such situations, and builds to a tragic conclusion. In Vivre sa vie, Godard borrowed the aesthetics of the cinéma vérité approach to documentary film-making that was then becoming fashionable. However, this film differed from other films of the French New Wave by being photographed with a heavy Mitchell camera, as opposed to the light weight cameras used for earlier films. The cinematographer was Raoul Coutard, a frequent collaborator of... less