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Vivre sa vie [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Jean-Luc Godard.

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Criterion Collection, c2010.

Prostitution -- Drama.

Prostitution -- Films.

Criterion collection ; 512.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

My life to live [videorecording (DVD)]

Vivre sa vie [videorecording (DVD)] : film en douze tableaux

To live her life [videorecording (DVD)] : a film in twelve scenes

[videorecording (DVD)] /

DVD special ed.

1 videodisc (83 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on the book "Où en est la prostitution" by Marcel Sacotte.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1962.

Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer ; audio commentary featuring film scholar Adrian Martin ; video interview with film scholar Jean Narboni, conducted by historian Noël Simsolo ; television interview from 1962 with actress Anna Karina ; excerpts from a 1961 French television exposé on prostitution ; illustrated essay on La prostitution, the book that served as inspiration for the film ; stills gallery ; director Jean-Luc Godard's original theatrical trailer ; PLUS: a booklet featuring Godard's original scenario, an essay by critic Michael Atkinson, interviews with Godard, and a reprint by critic Jean Collet on the film's soundtrack.

In French with optional English subtitles.

[Films de la Pléaide ; Pathé Consortium Cinéma ; written and directed by Jean Luc Godard ; produced by Pierre Braunberger.]

Anna Karina with Saddy Rebbot, André Labarthe, G. Schlumberger, Gérard Hoffmann, Monique Messine, Paul Pavel, Dimitri Dineff, Peter Kassowitz, E. Schlumberger, Brice Parain and Henri Atal.

"Vivre sa vie was a turning point for Jean-Luc Godard and remains one of his most dynamic films, combining brilliant visual design with a tragic character study. The lovely Anna Karina, Godard's greatest muse, plays Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress but instead ends up a prostitute; her downward spiral is depicted in a series of discrete tableaux of daydreams and dances. Featuring some of Karina and Godard's most iconic moments - from her movie theater vigil with The Passion of Joan of Arc to her seductive pool-hall strut - Vivre sa vie is a landmark of the French New Wave that still surprises at every turn."--Container.

Pasinetti Award and Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival, 1962.

May be available in Blu-Ray at some branches (not requestable).

New wave films.

Experimental films.

Urban drama (Films)

Films français.

Nouvelle Vague (Cinéma)

Films éxperimentaux.

Sacotte, Marcel. Où en est la prostitution.

Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930-

Karina, Anna, 1940-

Rebbot, Sady, 1935-1994.

Labarthe, André S.

Schlumberger, G. (Guylaine)

Hoffman, Gérard (Actor)

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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