My Life to Live (1962)
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Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 18 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.5/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Synopsis: MY LIFE TO LIVE is Jean-Luc Godard's political, philosophical and, above all, rapturous portrait of a Parisian prostitute who attempts to take control of her own life and understand the meaning of freedom. Godard's technically audacious film is an invigorating masterpiece that... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, Andre S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Monique Messine
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard
Producer: Pierre Braunberger
Composer: Michel Legrand
Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard
Producer: Pierre Braunberger
Composer: Michel Legrand
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Godard mixes titles, unusual use of sound, and long scenes of dialog. He is brilliantly served by his wife, Anna Karina, in this film. Karina gives the girl a ring of truth and depth.
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08/11/08
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Jean Luc-Godard’s third feature fuses trademark stylistic playfulness with a stark portrait of the dehumanising nature of capitalist society.
08/11/08
Jean-Luc Godard’s fourth film is a heartfelt, headstrong attempt to push his own concept of a deconstructed cinema even further into the stratosphere.
05/29/08
Star Anna Karina was in the brutal early rounds of marriage to her director, who was never more doting and egghead-condescending than in this showpiece.
05/27/08
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This 1962 film isn't the most stimulating of Godard's early work, but it does show him beginning to pull away from traditional cutting patterns and sequence arrangement.
10/24/07
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You can see now what Bernard Rose, Mike Figgis, Lars von Trier and all the other DV-fixated filmmakers are striving for; they're trying to reclaim the freedom, the weightlessness, of cinema. Bravo to them.
10/24/07
Twelve Brechtian tableaux chronicle the life and death of a whore, starting out as a documentary on prostitution, ending as a Monogram B movie.
01/26/06
Mr. Godard is a bold experimenter, but it's time he picked himself a stronger theme.
05/09/05
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There's a passion there that's hard to define except in terms of superb, totally fluid and, for the time, completely original and audacious film-making.
08/03/02
Godard never lets us forget the artificiality of what we're watching, turning the film into a masterful meditation on cinema, capitalism, and sex.
07/09/02
This is a great movie, and I am not surprised to find Susan Sontag describing it as 'one of the most extraordinary, beautiful, and original works of art that I know of.'
04/11/01
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An early stunner from Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave.
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