Vivre Sa Vie

Vivre Sa Vie follows Nana, a young woman in Paris who leaves her husband and child behind to pursue a career as an actress. When that ambition fails and money runs short, she takes a job in a record shop, but the pay is not enough to cover her rent, and she is eventually turned out of her home. She then turns to prostitution, a decision that shapes the rest of the film. The story is told in twelve separate episodes or tableaux, and the title itself announces this structure. Anna Karina plays Nana, with Sady Rebbot as Raoul and André S. Labarthe among the supporting cast.

Jean-Luc Godard directed and wrote the screenplay, with Pierre Braunberger producing. The film was released in September 1962 and runs 84 minutes. It is the third of the 23 films Godard directed in chronological order, arriving after A Woman Is a Woman and before The Seven Deadly Sins, placing it early in a long and prolific career. It is a French drama, made by Pathé Consortium Cinéma and Les Films de la Pléiade.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 7.8 from around 38,000 votes, and on TMDB it has a rating of 7.7 from 721 votes, indicating sustained viewer appreciation across decades. A critics' rating of 8.4 from 36 reviews places it somewhat higher than the audience scores on those platforms, suggesting that critics have rated the film more favorably than general viewers have.