Vivre Sa Vie

1962 • 1h 24m •

Drama

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★ 7.7/10

718 reviews

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Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

"The many faces of a woman trying to find herself."

Top Billed Cast

Anna Karina

Nana Kleinfrankenheim

Sady Rebbot

Raoul

André S. Labarthe

Paul

Guylaine Schlumberger

Yvette

Gérard Hoffmann

Chef

Monique Messine

Elisabeth

Paul Pavel

Journalist

Dimitri Dineff

Dimitri

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

C CRCulver Verified TMDB Critic

2018-09-02

<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 and regulations that the film explains in a documentary-like segment. Nana, who yearns to live her life according to her own desires, initially thinks that this new profession has set her free from ca...

B badelf Verified TMDB Critic

2022-10-11

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?...