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Friday, June 27, 2008 --- 55 days ago http://feeds.gothamistllc.com/click.phdo?i=78945db1cba296210b56aecdf65b3947
 DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. My Life to Live The AFI has returned to it's regular presenting schedule, which means that their Godard retrospective continues marching on. It's rather appropriate that My Life to Live is the first film to screen after the documentary festival: Godard infused his fourth feature with a realistic energy that came directly from the cinéma vérité movement that took documentaries as their inspiration. It's also, in this viewer's humble opinion, the best film that Godard ever made, a perfect blend of the director's best qualities; simultaneously playful, inventive, rebellious, confrontational, and brimming over with trenchant social commentary. And, it stars Anna Karina, who we'd be happy to watch reading the Parisian phone book for a couple of hours during her 1960s prime. Karina plays a wife and mother who abandons her family to become an actress. When things don't go quite to plan, she drifts into a life of prostitution, and things continue to unravel from there. The film's subtitle, "A Film in Twelve Scenes", is a literal description of Godard's structure. There are exactly twelve scenes, and each one is introduced with a title card describing what we are about to see. It's one of a number of self-conscious or deliberately unconventional devices used by the director that in many ways pulls us out of the wo ... |
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