Vivre sa vie

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Vivre sa vie : film en douze tableaux is a 1962 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The title means "To Live Her Life: A Film in Twelve Scenes", but in the English-speaking world it was released as My Life to Live (North America) or as It's My Life (UK). The most recent DVD releases use the original French title.
==Plot==
The film stars Anna Karina, as Nana, a beautiful Parisian in her early twenties who deliberately leaves her husband and her infant son hoping to become an actress. Without money, beyond what she earns as a shopgirl, and unable to enter acting, she elects to earn better money as a prostitiute. Soon she has a pimp, Raoul, who after an unspecified period agrees to sell Nana to another pimp. During the exchange the pimps argue and in a gun battle Nana is killed. Nana's short life on film is told in 12 brief episodes each preceded by a written resume. Godard introduces other idiosyncrasies to focus the viewer's attention.
==The twelve tableaux==
The divisions of this film are displayed as intertitles on the screen. These are:
*Tableau one: A bistro - Nana wants to leave Paul - Pinball
*Tableau two: The record shop - 2000 francs - Nana lives her life
*Tableau three: The concierge - The passion of Joan of Arc - a journalist
*Tableau four: The police - Nana is questioned
*Tableau five: The outer boulevards - the first man - the hotel room
*Tableau six: Yvette - a café in the suburbs - Raoul - machine gun fire
*Tableau seven: The letter - Raoul again - the Champs Élysées
*Tableau eight: Afternoons - money - wash-basins - pleasure - hotels
*Tableau nine: A young man - Nana wonders if she's happy
*Tableau ten: The sidewalk - a man - there's no gaiety in happiness
*Tableau eleven: Place de Chatelet - the stranger - Nana the unwitting philosopher
*Tableau twelve: The young man again - the oval portrait - Raoul sells Nana
==[edit]Cast==
*Anna Karina as Nana Kleinfrankenheim
*Sady Rebbot as Raoul (as Saddy Rebbot)
*André S. Labarthe as Paul
*Guylaine Schlumberger as Yvette (as G. Schlumberger)
*Gérard Hoffman as Le chef
*Monique Messine as Elisabeth
*Paul Pavel as Journaliste
*Dimitri Dineff as Dimitri
*Peter Kassovitz as Le jeune homme
*Eric Schlumberger as Luigi (as E. Schlumberger)
*Brice Parain as Le philosophe
*Henri Attal as Arthur (as Henri Atal)
*Gilles Quéant as Premier client
*Odile Geoffroy as La serveuse de café
*Marcel Charton as L'agent de police
Category:1962 films