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Vivre Sa Vie

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Anna Karina as Nana Kleinfrankenheim in Vivre Sa Vie (Godard, 1962)

My hours of sleep are completely wrong. My time in life doesn’t follow any pattern. And that strange way of being, in time and life, made me uneasy until now. And well, Charly said it once again, the way I needed to hear.

Well, Anna, what can you expect from yourself? Look at the movies you like. They define you. Their pace feel the opposite, their slowness imply patience but greater rewards. But why does one same thing seem to be harder to me than to anyone else? I believe in life as narration, he said. And I’m not talking about a lousy narration. Everything in our life must be there for some reason that will pay off later. Your cinema is not easy, neither you are. You’ll need to breathe reality the way you watch images in the dark, and slowly everything will fall into its right place.

And so I begin to understand.