A wonderful documentary that beautifully captures the spirit, poetry and difficulty of the couple's relationship. So much of who we are depends on who have chosen to be with us as we pass through life. Art, like life, is not made on an island, it requires, dialog, inspiration and holding the insanity of solitude in check, at least until we die.
19 year old Dane who walked into the French film industry, refusing to play small parts, demanding leading roles, and landing herself one of the country’s leading directors. Smart.
@@Anna-xh2mo your comment comes out pretty judgy - just came to remind you in 'vivre sa vie' she plays a prostitute without money somehow manipulated by a pimp who doesn't even love her because he sells her at the end.. and watching the film you cannot avoid to love and even admire her , don't know from where you associate vulgarity with nudity.
This was the right time to watch this documentary, done in a faithful esprit to this period of Godard, the European post-'50s auteur par excellence. (A fault, or limit, is that it excludes "Made in USA" and seems to pose that it doesn't exist.) Karina is someone and something woven into the firmament of cinema. I wonder if we will ever really say who and what she is other than a joyous, trembling light. She wasn't known as a "director" yet she was very much a "filmmaker," as this doc testifies. Thank you Anna Karina.
Ella fue una gran musa inspiradora para él, y él un gran mentor para ella.. Anna Karina era tan hermosa, inteligente y talentosa. Descansa en paz bella Anna.
Merci Luc ! Précieux. Tellement de choses subtiles à voir pour ce que tout le monde croit si prétentieusement bien connaître. Et avec le bon goût de ne pas parler de "Made in Usa", la bobine de trop. Pierrot le Fou, pierrot le fou, l'apothéose, c'est certain.
I very much enjoyed this, and am surprised by how much I did: little of it is new to me. It may be a bit gentle on Godard - his behavior toward Karina was quite awful - but it's too much to expect a French documentarian to be overly critical of one of France's major cultural figures. The doc is a good little starting point for the young person casually interested in great films, including the mysterious "French New Wave". Most of Godard's films in the 1960s are well worth watching, and most of that is because of Anna Karina. At one point, one of the French luminaries here reduces the love story to: "They met, fell in love, were happy for a while, broke up" which has an implied challenge: prove that reduction otherwise. Make it more than what I said. And I think the filmmakers here do. Karina was absolutely instrumental to Godard's success. "Breathless" could have been a one-off, and there were many other New Wave filmmakers, Truffaut perhaps the most popular, who were better storytellers. But Karina's involvement with Godard's films, and their brief marriage, assured the immortality of both. She was a great film actress, bottom line, and her natural charm was abundant on screen. This story is not simply the "French version" of Miller and Monroe, as an old professor once told my film class a long time ago. This was an equal pairing, and Karina was tougher than Monroe. (I suppose both Miller and Godard share a long, long decline in relevancy as each man aged.) I also must note that Karina enjoyed a long productive life after Godard; Godard merely had a long life. Oh well, they're both gone now.
Amazing doc !!! :) By the way, even geniuses can make mistakes : Rimbaud never wrote "La vraie vie est ailleurs" in Une Saison en Enfer, but : "La vraie vie est absente." And sooooo many people quote it making the same mistake as Godard, in his masterpiece "Pierrot le Fou" ! Anyway, for ever Godard and Karina :)
Sérieux le gars qui a fait le documentaire n'a jamais vu la Suisse à 2:45 il cite Rolle qui est au bord du Léman et relativement loi des montagnes (et encore, du jura)qu'il illustre avec un paturage alpin, puis Nyon.... qu'il illustre avec l'églisse St-François de Lausanne. Il y a pourtant bien des bâtiment emblématique du bourg de Rolle et de la ville de Nyon à commencer par leurs forts médiévaux et leur rues proprement charmant et vivantes
Je ne savais pas que Anna Karina et Godard n’étaient plus ensemble lors du tournage d’Alphaville et de Pierrot le fou, c’est quand même bizarre. Je n’ai trouvé aucune information à ce sujet ailleurs. Est-ce que quelqu’un a d’autres pistes ? Il y a aussi le fait de ne pas avoir inclus Made in USA qui me fait soupçonner.
Great documentary, revealing and insightful on how Godard's and Karina's relationship influenced those films and vice versa. Please, who is the singer/song over the end credits? can't find it on Google or see it acknowledged within the end credits.
@@lachambreverteCheers for the info, I'll definitely have to rewatch Pierrot le Fou now. Anna's version has such a great feel to it. Again, much appreciated !
The song is "Jamais je ne t'ai dit que je t'aimerai toujours" by Serge Rezvani; Karina sings it in the film "Pierrot le fou." Glad you enjoyed the documentary!
