Release Date: Available Now Director: Jean-Luc Godard Writers: Marcel Sacotte, Godard Cinematographer: Raoul Coutard Starring: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot Studio/Run Time: Criterion Collection, 83 min. Early outing from New Wave auteur reveals great depths “I. is someone else,” confesses Nana (Anna Karina) during a police inquiry, echoing the century-old sentiment of French poet Arthur Rimbaud. In the next scene, she transforms from a meek record store clerk with suffocating debt and a child that she (and the audience) never sees, to a prostitute with a new set of problems. The 1961 film is classic Godard in its exploration of...
- 8/5/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
I first watched Jean-Luc Godard's classic film Breathless a little over a year ago and fell instantly in love with it. I ran out and bought the two-disc Criterion DVD edition and only one week later Turner Classic Movies listed it as one of their 15 Most Influential Movies of All-Time. Following that film he made A Woman Is a Woman, his first feature with Vivre sa vie star and soon-to-be wife Anna Karina. One year later came Vivre sa vie, a film that didn't blow me away as much as Breathless, but it is undeniably Godard with a style that almost can't be explained though the scholars on this Criterion edition offer plenty of comparisons.
Karina stars as Nana, a record shop employee with dreams of becoming an actress and despite what appears to be people trying to either help or take advantage of her, she's come upon hard...
Karina stars as Nana, a record shop employee with dreams of becoming an actress and despite what appears to be people trying to either help or take advantage of her, she's come upon hard...
- 4/20/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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