Godard frames and edits his shots, moves the camera, uses music, and deploys his actors in ways that still seem radical -- even as several generations of directors since have cribbed and stolen from him.
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11/13/08
My Life to Live (1962)
90 %
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Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 19
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
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... [More]
Starring: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, Andre S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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Reviews for My Life to Live
Top CriticGodard 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.
08/11/08
Top CriticJean 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
Top CriticThis 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
Top CriticYou 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
Invigorating, revolutionary, joyfully iconoclastic and spontaneous.
10/24/07
truly exhilarating
09/06/06
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
Highly innovative.
10/23/05
Mr. Godard is a bold experimenter, but it's time he picked himself a stronger theme.
05/09/05
Top CriticNo review available.
03/24/05
No review available.
12/18/04
Only in Paris.
04/20/03
No review available.
01/25/03
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
No review available.
07/29/02
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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