My Life to Live
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Movie Reviews of My Life to Live
Movie Review: Landmark Film
Summary: 5 Stars
I've enjoyed Godard before, especially "Breathless," but this film is Godard's most powerful. Anna Karina is an out of work Dutch actress in poverty. She slips from shop girl to streetwalker. The world of suave French pimps and sex workers of 1962 in black and white fascinates. Sex, sex for francs always fascinates. Nana is herself, and she is a prostitute. She has chosen this role because it is all the work she has been offered. It is the entertainment business after all. At first, the stranger that wants to kiss her disgusts, but before long she is making money and has a philosophical young pimp to show her the ropes. Nana entertains her John's every whim, as do all the streetwalkers of Paris. The result is a moralistic tragedy, but the telling of the tale in weird, faceless shots with a cold, winter Paris are the antitheses of films like the golden summers of "Gigi." I remember those streets from my travels in the mid-century. There is Goddard style and there is the seamy side of prostitution even if the whore is as young and beautiful as Anna Karina. The prettier, the more successful, in the sex trade.
I must tell the review reader that much of European prostitution, perhaps in America too is slavery - forced sex work. The victims are young East European girls from the old Iron Curtain, and don't kid yourself; they are slaves and many, if not all, have been beaten, gang raped, and disfigured. Many have venereal disease. Am I being over dramatic? I know -- they smile at a John, but don't be naive. Remember there is a man behind the curtain holding a gun. Remember I told you.
Movie Review: a great film for little money
Summary: 5 Stars
I believe someone complained about this film being full screen, but I'm pretty sure that's the original aspect ratio. I have to give a hand to Fox Lorber. Although Criterion does the best with older films, at least they have made these great films available on DVD at LOW prices! Where I live there are no decent video stores, so if I want to see something like this I have to buy it.Now about the film.......the cinematography is beautiful.........and it doesn't hurt that it's main subject is Anna Karina.....i love it when she does 'itsy bitsy spider' to find out her height, and the editing in the cafe when the gun shots are fired & just about everytime she smiles......this was the first time I laid eyes on her *heart beats* ..now i want to see A Woman is a Woman badly.......the word is Criterion will release it this year.....yippee!!
Movie Review: Essential viewing for anyone with any interest in film...
Summary: 5 Stars
I keep coming back to Godard. What can I do, he's one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and everything he made in the 60's with Anna Karina (his then wife) is absolutely amazing. I'm not using the word amazing loosely here either...this film in particular fills one with awe. It's style borrows something from Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (which Nana watches in this film) although not in a direct way. It is completely unique, original, and highly inventive filmmaking, using a number of cinematic tricks and devices that Godard was so enthusiastic about playing with. Here, they all work. I cannot recommend this movie highly enough. It is beautiful.Movie Review: One of the very best of the French New Wave
Summary: 5 Stars
My life to live is movie which breaks all of the rules of movies... From the opening shots the darkened profile of anna karina, to the opening scene in which the backs of the two characters in conversation are filmed.. this is Godard a man who loves to confront his audience and to challenge his audience.. But My Life to Live is more than just experimentation in celluloid, it is also a tale of a woman who falls into a life of prostitution.. and it delves into such topics as philosophy, religon, and poetry.. This is a perfectly paced film - each chapter illustrating something the director wants to tell us of the characters..
It is one of the rare gems of the new wave.
Movie Review: I give this five freedom fries.
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is about as hip as a movie can get. The editing and godard's handling of the montage sequencee in which the pimp goes over the legal minutiae of being a french whore with the heroine is worth the viewing of this film alone.