Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Original title:
Vivre sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux, or "To Live One's Life: A Film in Twelve Tableaux."
Anna Karina, Godard's then wife, stars as Nana, a young Parisian woman who abandons her marriage and a child in order to pursue a career as an actress. Faced with financial troubles she drifts into prostitution. Nana believes she makes this choice of her own free will, but the film emphasises the social structure that forces the poor into such situations, and builds to a tragic conclusion. Rather than glamorizing prostitution Godard analyses it from a sociological perspective. In fact, one of the film's original sources is a study of contemporary prostitution, Où en est la prostitution by Marcel Sacotte.
Vivre sa Vie catalogues the nature of modernity. In particular it is saturated with quotations from, and observations about, the popular or consumerist culture of Godard's Paris.
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