Vivre Sa Vie
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.
- 7.7
- 1962
- Released
- 1h 24m
Anna Karina
Nana Kleinfrankenheim
Sady Rebbot
Raoul
Guylaine Schlumberger
Yvette
Gérard Hoffmann
Chef
Monique Messine
Elisabeth
Paul Pavel
JournalistDimitri Dineff
DimitriBrice Parain
Philosopher
Henri Attal
ArthurGilles Quéant
First Customer
Odile Geoffroy
The Cafe WaitressMarcel Charton
PolicemanJack Florency
The Man in the Cinema
Alfred Adam
(uncredited)Mario Botti
Italian (uncredited)Gisèle Braunberger
Concierge (uncredited)
Jean Ferrat
Man Near the Jukebox (uncredited)
László Szabó
Injured Man (uncredited)
Released
fr
$64,000.00
$24,517.00
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- #female protagonist
- #black and white
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- #woman smoking
- #pinball machine
Reviews
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?
<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