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My Life to Live

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from 16 May 2024
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18+

A woman is a woman: the most sensual early film by one of the New Wave classics.

Vivre sa vie
1962, Jean-Luc Godard

France
85 minutes, French with Russian subtitles

Starring: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger

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Nana leaves her husband. Nana wants to be a film star. But in the meantime, she needs at least a couple of thousand francs to pay the rent. A series of random encounters and accidents lead her to a police station and then onto becoming a working girl. And yet Nana has never been so free.

Shot from My Life to Live, 1962

Vivre Sa Vie seems to me a perfect film. That is, it sets out to do something that is both noble and intricate, and wholly succeeds in doing it.

— Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays

By telling the heroine’s story in twelve short chapters and several dozen attentive long shots, Jean-Luc Godard allows us to see the answers to questions as philosophical as they are universal. How to be yourself? What is life? And what does “freedom” mean?

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