SCREENING EVENT - ARTS PICTUREHOUSE CAMBRIDGE (UK) - MONDAY 3RD MAY - 6.30PM
Colin MacCabe author of the recent biography of Jean-Luc Godard (_Godard: A
Portrait of the Artist at 70_, Bloomsbury 2003)will introduce the 1962 film
VIVRE SA VIE (see description below) at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, on
Monday 3rd May.
The event will begin at 6.30pm and there will be questions and discussion
after the screening.
Tickets (£4) can be booked through the Arts Picturehouse box office on:
01223 504444 or online at www.picturehouses.co.uk
VIVRE SA VIE (IT¹S MY LIFE / MY LIFE TO LIVE) [18]
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Starring: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André
Labarthe. France 1962. 85 mins. French with English subtitles. B & W.
Released in a sparkling new print by the British Film Institute, VIVRE SA
VIE tells the story of a provincial ingénue (Anna Karina) who becomes a
Paris whore because she can¹t pay the rent. Stylistically, a merging of
cursory homage to American gangster movies with a quasi-sociological
investigation of prostitution, structured in twelve Brechtian chapters (or
stations of the cross), the film also utilises cinema-verité style
observation, interviews, statistics and quotes. The examination of
prostitution finally proves subordinate to an obsessive, rapturous portrait
of Karina (Godard¹s wife), which seems to probe her individuality and
glamour while placing her in context to cinematic icons of the past like
Lillian Gish, Falconetti and Louise Brooks. As Godard later noted, the film
was the first stage in the dissolution of their marriage.
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