I don't think there is a movie that is more visually striking & aesthetically pleasing than this one. The story doesn't matter much. Just immerse yourselves in the dreamlike images.
Jean-Luc Godard's "Vivre sa vie" (1962) was accepted by the Venice Film Festival after a conflict with Italian officials over several shots of n*d!ty that Godard cut from the release print. The film was booed after the screening: the difference of tone from Godard’s previous works, with their Hollywood stylings, was disconcerting. Nonetheless, it was “the object, the whole day, of all conversations” at the festival, and the film was awarded two prizes: the Critics’ Prize and the Special Jury Prize.
One of the critics of the movie wondered why the characters in the movie talked so much, Godard said, “As in life, people talk a lot when they have a lot to say… What I have to say, I don’t say myself but I have my characters say it and that’s why they talk abundantly.”
("Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard", Richard Brody, 2008)
P.S: On this day, 64 years ago, "Vivre sa vie" (1962) premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Italy.
28 August 1865 | A Jewish man, Karl Leopold Kirchner, was born in Skuodas (now Lithuania). In 1907 he emigrated to Norway.
He was arrested in February 1943 in a Jewish elderly home. He was murdered in a gas chamber in #Auschwitz agter arrival selection on 3 March 1943.
As-tu jamais connu une personne qui fût tant de choses à la fois, qui les portât en elle, de sorte que chacun de ses gestes, chaque pensée que tu formes d'elle, renfermât d'infinies choses de ta terre et de ton ciel, et des mots et des souvenirs ?
(Cesare Pavese)
Françoise Hardy
26 sierpnia 1923 | Niemiecka Żydówka, Ilse Kahn, urodziła się w Wermelskirchen. Wyemigrowała do Holandii.
W listopadzie 1942 roku została deportowana z #Westerbork do #Auschwitz. Zginęła w obozie 28 lutego 1943 roku.