Vivre sa vie
Vivre sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux (1962) is a film by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars his then wife Anna Karina as Nana, a Parisian woman with financial trouble who decides to become a prostitute. Nana believes she makes this choice of her own free will, but the film emphasises the social structure that forces the poor into such situations, and builds to a tragic conclusion.
The film was made on location in Paris, with hand-held photography by Raoul Coutard, but Godard uses Brechtian techniques: twelve intertitles appear before each of the film's 'chapters' explaining what will happen next, and Godard frequently breaks conventional rules, by using jump cuts and occasionally filming characters from behind when they are talking.
Vivre sa Vie literally means 'To Live Her Life', but in Britain it was translated as 'It's My Life' and in America as 'My Life to Live'.
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