Vivre Sa Vie

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A film by Jean-Luc Godard Nana (Anna Karina) needs two thousand francs. After asking her ex-boyfriend, then her workmates, a friend introduces her to Raoul who offers her a way to work for the money. In pursuit of fame and fortune, she leaves her family to become an actress, but instead descends into the world of prostitution on the chic streets of 1960s Paris. Told in twelve episodes, it shocked audienced at its 1962 premiere and was instantly recognised as one of the definitive films of the French New Wave. A highly-structured combination of documentary techniques and gangster noir, Vivre Sa Vie ( My Life to Live ) is one of Godard's most complex and critically-acclaimed films. DVD Special Features • Audio Commentary by Adrian Martin, film scholar and editor of Rouge Magazine • Une Histoire d'Eau: a short film by Jean-Luc Godard • Image Gallery

Release Date: 21/06/2006
Audio tracks: Stereo 2.0
Languages: French
Genre: Classic, World Cinema
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Subtitles: English subtitles
Runtime: 85.0 mins
Format: DVD, Region 4 (PAL)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Original Aspect Ratio
Catalogue: MMA2409

"The real confirmation of Godard's genius." SIGHT AND SOUND

"Completely off beat. Mr. Godard is a bold experimenter." THE NEW YORK TIMES

"A masterful meditation on cinema, capitalism, and sex... a masterpiece of inventiveness that's as radically mind-blowing today as it was four decades ago." BBC FILM

"One of the most extraordinary, beautiful, and original works of art that I know of." Susan Sontag

"This is a great movie" Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

"superb, totally fluid and, for the time, completely original and audacious film-making" THE GUARDIAN

"A stunner...far ahead of its time." THE MOVIE GUIDE