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Bookmark this pageVivre sa Vie (1962)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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From Time Out Film Guide
Twelve Brechtian tableaux chronicle the life and death of a whore, starting out as a documentary on prostitution, ending as a Monogram B movie. In retrospect, Godard expressed doubts about the cheap gangster pyrotechnics as being merely a nod to cinephilia. But like the highly stylised prostitution scenes, they are in fact a distantiating device forcing a more direct confrontation with the film's true subject: the enigmatic beauty and troubling presence of Karina, and the mystery of Godard's own passionate involvement with her. This film, as Godard has noted, was the first stage in the inevitable dissolution of their marriage, as described in Pierrot le Fou; and every scene in the film obliquely pinpoints that crisis as originating in the awareness that, as director to star actress, he found himself rapturously but humiliatingly playing client to her prostitute.Author: TM
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Cast & crew
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Producer: Pierre Braunberger
Cast: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Brice Parain, Peter Kassowitz full cast
Duration: 85 mins
US Release: May 30 2008
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