The sentimental tale of a whore with a heart of gold, filmed in an austere and detached style; a consideration of the soul, presented with rigorous exteriority; a deterministic tragedy arranged into a series of haphazard incidents—My Life to Live is decidedly Brechtian and one of Godard's most richly paradoxical works. It is also, as the director himself has pointed out, the first step in the inevitable dissolution of his marriage to star Anna Karina. "[Every] scene in the film obliquely pinpoints that crisis as originating in the awareness that, as director to star-actress, he found himself rapturously but humiliatingly playing client to her prostitute." (Tom Milne, Time Out) 35mm
1962, b&w, 1 hour 25 minutes, France