VIVRE SA VIE Flashcards
Finish the quote by Jean Luc Godard “a film should have a beginning middle and end…
…but not necessarily in that order”
How did Godard challenge the conventional means of telling a story and remind the audience they are watching an artificial construction
Through the use of the Brechtian Threarte technique the V effect which is a technique used to alienate and distance the audience and wake them from passive viewing, their false consciousness
How does Godard disrupt the flow of narrative
With 12 tableaus that break up the scenes and give us a brief description of them
How did Robert Ebert describe Vivre sa vie
“Unsentimental and Abrupt”
What does the use of Tableaus force the audience to do
It gives us insight into future events and forces us to recognises the narrative as constructed series of episodes
In the closing scene, what is experimental about the voice over
it is the voice of the director jean luc godard
pick an example of a obsessive long take in the closing scene
Right at the beginning of the scene we get a very long take of nana with the voice of god narration, the action is happening off screen, its only on nana and an example of Godard’s attempt of creating a mind in action in this film
Name 2 more expiremental techniques used in the closing scene
unconcovential framing, only showing the top of the man’s head, and no dialogue only subtitles. Godard uses techniques such as this to distance ourselves from Nana as a protagonist, and getting you to learn her emotions as a separate person and give an objective understanding not allowing the audience to have any direct connection or emotional connection to the protagonist
Name another time Godard has aimed to distance the audience from nana as a protagonist
In the opening scene where the camera acts as an individual person not letting us see the character faces just as if we as the audience were sitting behind them in the cafe. it gives a completely individual perspective of the characters. This is all a part of the bretchian v effect technique about alienating the audience.
Shooting on location is a….
New wave aesthetic
What is experimental about the music in the closing scene
It cuts in and out and almost random moments and is incredibly jarring, and makes us aware of the music and of the editing of it.
When Nana is being sold name some ways it is experimental
We get a static long shot with only pans, no edits, no cuts to a different angle to close up of Nana’s face to get an emotional shot, we are very disconnected from her
