My Life to Live

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 regularises her work. After an unspecified period Raoul agrees to sell Nana to another pimp. During the exchange the pimps fall out 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 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

 
Source : Wikipedia

• Type : Feature film
• Genres : Fiction
  
• Sub-genre : Drama, Portrait
  
• Themes : Prostitution
  
• Production language : French
• Production country : France
• Original French-language productions : Yes
  
• Nationality : 100% French (France)
  
• Production year : 1962
• French release : 20/09/1962
  
• Runtime : 1 h 25 min
  
• Current status : Released
  
• Visa number : 25.982
  
• Visa issue date : 31/05/2011
  
• Approval : Yes
  
• Production formats : 35mm
• Color type : Black & White
  
• Aspect ratio : 1.37
  
• Audio format : Mono