Drama
French (Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux)
1962 · Directed by Jean-Luc Godard · 84 min
Nana, a young woman working in a Paris record shop, dreams of becoming an actress and wants to live on her own terms. Godard follows her through twelve titled chapters, observing her with a cool, probing attention rather than inviting easy sympathy or judgment.
Why it matters in cinema history
A central film of the French New Wave's second phase, when its directors turned from homage to American genre cinema toward moral and formal experiment. It remains a key model for modernist, chaptered, observational filmmaking.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a study of how a person is looked at: by the camera, by other characters and by herself.
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