

Vivre Sa Vie
The many faces of a woman trying to find herself.
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
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7.7/10
727 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $64K
- Box office
- $24.5K
- Language
- French
- prostitute
- paris, france
- philosophy
- pimp
- female protagonist
- black and white
- prostitution
- free will
- woman smoking
- pinball machine
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNRNew York City, New York23 Sept 1963
- Theatrical (limited)Harvard Film Archive6 Feb 2006
- PremiereNew York Film Festival4 Oct 2013
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical29 Oct 1962
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP20 Sept 1962
- TheatricalTPRe-release15 Feb 2017
GermanyDE
- Theatrical18West Germany2 Oct 1962
- TheatricalEast Germany19 Apr 1984
- TVRestored Version23 Nov 2000
GreeceGR
- TheatricalRe-Release31 Jul 2025
ItalyIT
- PremiereVenice Film Festival28 Aug 1962
- Theatrical18+21 Feb 1963
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1831 Jan 1963
- TheatricalDigitally Restored Version18 Jan 2018
RussiaRU
- Theatrical18+Restored 4K version8 May 2024
- Digital / OTT18+3 Jun 2024
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical183 May 1997
- TheatricalRe-release23 Dec 2005
- Theatrical15Re-release4 Apr 2019
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1520 Sept 1962
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Vivre Sa Vie was released on 20 September 1962.
Audience reviews
2- C9/10
CRCulver
9/2/2018
<i>Vivre sa vie</i> was Jean-Luc Godard's fourth feature film. The protagonist Nana (Anna Karina) is a young Parisian woman who is not especially bright, but full of life and endowed with great beauty. Unable to make ends meet by working at a record shop, and unable to break into films as she dreams, she starts to work as a prostitute. Postwar French law permitted prostitution, with certain rules and regulations that…
- B9/10
badelf
10/11/2022
It's Jean-Luc Godard at the avant-garde of filmmaking. It's a brilliant film with so many new ideas for early the 60s. What else is there to say?
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