My Life to Live

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution. Nana (Anna Karina), a beautiful Parisian in her early twenties, leaves her husband and 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 prostitute. Soon she has a pimp, Raoul, who after an unspecified period agrees to sell Nana to another pimp. During the exchange the pimps argue and Nana is killed in a gun battle. Nana's short life on film is told in 12 brief episodes each preceded by a written intertitle. Twice distinguished at the Venice Film Festival : by the jury and the critics.

Keywords

  • Escape to the 60's
  • Nouvelle Vague

Actors

  • Sady Rebbot
  • Peter Kassovitz
  • Henri Attal
  • Dimitri Dineff
  • André S. Labarthe
  • Odile Geoffroy
  • Mario Botta
  • Gilles Quéant
  • Guylaine Schlumberger
  • Gérard Hoffman
  • Gisèle Hauchecorne
  • Jean Ferrat
  • Jacques Florency
  • Eric Schlumberger
  • Marcel Charton
  • Anna Karina
  • Monique Messine

Director

  • Jean-Luc Godard

Timeless


1h 30min


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FR

France
1962
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.


Nana (Anna Karina), a beautiful Parisian in her early twenties, leaves her husband and 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 prostitute. Soon she has a pimp, Raoul, who after an unspecified period agrees to sell Nana to another pimp. During the exchange the pimps argue and Nana is killed in a gun battle. Nana's short life on film is told in 12 brief episodes each preceded by a written intertitle.

Twice distinguished at the Venice Film Festival : by the jury and the critics.

Cast & Crew