Museum of the Moving Image (Venue Partner)
36-01 35 Avenue
718.777.6888
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Vivre Sa Vie
- When
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Saturday Aug 1, 2009 (2pm)
Sunday Aug 2, 2009 (2pm)
- Where
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Directions: R, M to Steinway Street (exit station at 34 Ave). N, W to 36 Ave.
- Price
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$11 per film / $7 for members of Museum of the Moving Image or MAD
- Links
FRENCH NEW WAVE ESSENTIALS
AT THE MUSEUM OF ARTS
VIVRE SA VIE
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
August 1* & 2, 2 PM
1962, 85 mins.
The story of a woman who comes to Paris to become on actress but instead becomes a prostitute is told by Godard in twelve tableaux, an innovative style which balances formal rigor and Brechtian distance with the underlying emotionalism of the tragic tale. The style also allowed Godard to blend essay and documentary approaches with fictional filmmaking. Susan Sontag called it “one of the most extraordinary, beautiful, and original works of art that I know of...[it] seems to me a perfect film.”
*August 1 screening introduced by Richard Brody (The New Yorker), author of Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard.
This series marks the first collaboration between the 
David Schwartz, chief curator of Museum of the Moving Image.
Museum of Arts and Design is located at
For more information, contact 212.299.7717 or visit http://www.movingimage.us/site/calendar/index.html
