My Life to Live
Synopsis
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
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (23)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Les Films de la Pléiade
- Film exports/foreign sales : Les Films du Jeudi
- French distribution : Panthéon Distribution
Full credits (20)
- Executive Producer : Pierre Braunberger
- Screenwriters : Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Sacotte
- Director of Photography : Raoul Coutard
- Music Composer : Michel Legrand
- Assistant directors : Bernard Toublanc-Michel, Jean-Paul Savignac
- Editors : Agnès Guillemot, Jean-Luc Godard
- Sound Recordist : Guy Villette
- Costume designer : Christiane Fageol
- Author of original work : Marcel Sacotte
- Voice-over : Jean-Luc Godard
- Sound Assistant : Jean Philippe
- Assistant Operator : Claude Beausoleil
- Production managers : Jean-François Adam, Roger Fleytoux
- Sound Editor : Lila Lakshmanan
- Continuity supervisor : Suzanne Schiffman
- Director of Photography : Charles Bitsch
- Special Effects : Jean Fouchet
- Make-up Artists : Simone Knapp, Alexandre, Jacky Reynal
- Sound Mixer : Jacques Maumont
- Production secretary : Ida Fassio
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Technical details
- 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
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News & awards
News (2)
Selections (4)
Hong Kong International Film Festival
Hong Kong, 2023
Focus - Jean-Luc Godard x Anna Karina : A Retrospective
