Double Feature: 50th Anniversary! JULES AND JIM, 1962, VIVRE SA VIE, 1962, July 5, 2012

Thursday, July 5 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: 50th Anniversary! JULES AND JIM, 1962, Janus Films, 105 min. Dir. Francois Truffaut. In one of the greatest films of the French New Wave, Truffaut elevates the material of old-fashioned melodrama to high art: Two friends are forced to fight on different sides during World War I and then fall in love with the same woman during peacetime. With Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner and Henri Serre. In French with English subtitles. [35mm]
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50th Anniversary! VIVRE SA VIE, 1962, Janus Films, 80 min. Dir. Jean-Luc Godard. With dark-rimmed eyes and her iconic bob haircut, Anna Karina stuns as Nana, a restless Parisian young woman who descends into prostitution when her aspiration to become an actress falters. Recently separated from her husband, Nana is alone except for her heartless pimp and the women she knows from hooking in the banlieue. Godard goes bleak here while retaining his dazzling visual ingenuity: The close shots of Nana's face as she watches the close shots of Maria Falconetti's face in Dreyer's THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC are silently moving, while Nana's pool-hall dance of gleeful abandon is now a classic New Wave moment. In French with English subtitles. [35mm]
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