Vivre sa vie

Parisian housewife Nana (Anna Karina) leaves her husband and child, hoping to become an actress. Failing to break into the profession, she drifts from shop assistant to prostitute. Told in 'twelve episodes' with Godardian textural intervention, Vivre sa vie is a discursive film essay that questions the nature of cinema itself while nodding back to such earlier masters as Dreyer, Bresson and Mizoguchi; and - in the image of Karina - to Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box.

Plus the Czech animation Repete (1995, dir Michaela Pavlátová, 9min).

Introduction by Philip Kemp on Monday 20 February.