Vivre Sa Vie seems to me a perfect film. That is, it sets out to do something that is both noble and intricate, and wholly succeeds in doing it.

| May 2, 2024

A series of poised, artful long takes, which highlight Karina’s vulnerable, tremulous performance and serve up the copious text as if in a picture frame.

| Jan 2, 2023

Anna Karina is a mesmerizing expression of energy, wonder, and reality. Surround her with intoxicating style, layers of cultural references, and a grounded story and you have “My Life to Live”

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Jean-Luc Godards fourth film marked a significant new direction for young turk director, away from the impassioned sketchiness of his furiously directed first films and into the realm of carefully composed scenes and formal visual strategies.

| Mar 20, 2022

Where Breathless and Une Femme est une Femme were full of tumbling life, this one is studiously frozen.

| Apr 21, 2021

Impeccable cinematography by Raoul Coutard. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 16, 2020

A film of extraordinary purity.

| Jun 18, 2019

"My Life to Live" has just as much social currency today as the day it was released if its gangster trope ending lets Godard off the hook all too easy.

| Original Score: A | Feb 16, 2018

At once severe and incandescent, rigorously distanced yet close enough to touch the lenses

| Jul 12, 2015

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

To Live Her Life is, to this very early point in his career, Godard's crowning achievement.

| Original Score: 88/100 | Jul 12, 2011

truly exhilarating

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 21, 2010

Godard's ode to a hooker remains a bleak, sexy and heartbreaking work of art

| Original Score: A | Aug 12, 2010

A fine example of Godard's experimental affronts to cinematic conventions, his exploration of the human condition, and his concern for social issues. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 31, 2010

contains the best of Godard, both the intellectual and the emotional

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 6, 2010

If we were to reduce all of world cinema to just a dozen images, Karina's perfect, pensive face would have to be among them.

| Original Score: 10/10 | May 1, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 13, 2008

Godard 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.

| Aug 11, 2008

Jean Luc-Godard's third feature fuses trademark stylistic playfulness with a stark portrait of the dehumanising nature of capitalist society.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2008

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.

Full Review | May 27, 2008