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* MeaningfulName: "Nana" was the name of the courtesan title character of Emile Zola's smash-hit 19th century French novel, ''Nana''.
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* MeaningfulName: "Nana" was the name of the courtesan title character of Emile Zola's smash-hit 19th century Creator/EmileZola's smash hit French novel, novel ''Nana''.
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Creator/AnnaKarina plays Nana, a young Parisian woman who leaves her unhappy marriage to pursue her dreams of being an actress, but turns to prostitution to support herself. She meets several clients as well as philosophers and in the end she is murdered by her pimp during a shootout with the gangsters to whom he is trying to exchange her.
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Creator/AnnaKarina plays Nana, a young Parisian woman who leaves her unhappy marriage to pursue her dreams of being an actress, but turns to prostitution to support herself. She meets several clients as well as philosophers and in and the end she is murdered by film portrays here life in a series of twelve episodes, detailing her pimp during a shootout relations with the gangsters different friends and her attempts to whom he is trying to exchange her.
find meaning in life.
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Creator/AnnaKarina plays Nana, a young Parisian woman who leaves her unhappy marriage to pursue her dreams of being an actress, but turns to prostitution to support herself. She meets several clients as well as philosophers and in the end she is murdered by her pimp during his a shootout with the other gangsters.
gangsters to whom he is trying to exchange her.
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* AsideGlance: Nana glances at the camera a couple of times, a bit sheepishly, as the philosopher natters on about how to live life without hurting people.
* TheCameo: Nana dances to Jean Ferrat's "Ma mome" on a jukebox. The man who plays the record? Musician Jean Ferrat.
* ContinuityNod: When they first meet in scene 6, Raoul says he saw Nana on the street three months ago. When Nana and Paul are talking in scene 3, the actor later identified as Raoul can be seen looking at her as he passes by.
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* DownerEnding: Nana is murdered in the last scene.
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* DownerEnding: Nana is murdered killed at the end of the film, caught in the last scene.crossfire between rival gangsters.
* HumiliationConga: Nana leaves an unhappy marriage. She's stuck in a dead-end job. Apparently she manages to lose that, as she resorts to prostitution. She's accused of stealing a thousand-franc note. One client makes her watch as he has sex with another prostitute.
* JumpCut: A Godard trademark; here there are several jump cuts in the scene near the end where Nana tenderly embraces her new pimp.
* JumpCut: A Godard trademark; here there are several jump cuts in the scene near the end where Nana tenderly embraces her new pimp.
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* ShoutOut: Nana goes to see ''Film/ThePassionOfJoanOfArc'', a film about men who judge and victimize women.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Nana goes to see ''Film/ThePassionOfJoanOfArc'', a film about men who judge and victimizewomen.women.
** Nana's boyfriend reads Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's "The Oval Portrait" out loud to her.
* SilenceIsGolden: For no obvious reason, the scene near the end between Nana and her new boyfriend is played as a silent film, with titled imposed on-screen in the same way that they are when Nana goes to watch ''The Passion of Joan of Arc''.
** Nana goes to see ''Film/ThePassionOfJoanOfArc'', a film about men who judge and victimize
** Nana's boyfriend reads Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's "The Oval Portrait" out loud to her.
* SilenceIsGolden: For no obvious reason, the scene near the end between Nana and her new boyfriend is played as a silent film, with titled imposed on-screen in the same way that they are when Nana goes to watch ''The Passion of Joan of Arc''.
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* BMovie: This film really isn't one, but the opening titles say it's "Dedicated to B-Movies".
* CentipedesDilemma: The philosopher shares an anecdote from a ''Three Musketeers'' novel about how Porthos sets a bomb, and starts to run away, until he thinks about how to put one foot in front of another. He finds out he cannot move, and gets killed.
* CentipedesDilemma: The philosopher shares an anecdote from a ''Three Musketeers'' novel about how Porthos sets a bomb, and starts to run away, until he thinks about how to put one foot in front of another. He finds out he cannot move, and gets killed.
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* SingleMomStripper: Nana's friend Yvette says she drifted into prostitution after her husband abandoned her and their two children.
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* FanserviceExtra: Nana goes looking around her hotel for the third part of a threesome. As she opens doors she finds a busty topless lady with a client, and two other clients naked from behind.
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* NoTellMotel: Nana's first trick has her going to a threadbare motel where the guy manning the desk doesn't even bother to ask names.
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** When Nana goes looking for a threesome partner later in the film, the hotel she's at doesn't seem to have anything but prostitutes.
** Nana's first trick has her going to a threadbare motel where the guy manning the desk doesn't even bother to ask
** When Nana goes looking for a threesome partner later in the film, the hotel she's at doesn't seem to have anything but prostitutes.
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* {{Streetwalker}}: What Nana becomes when her half-hearted attempt to get into movies doesn't pan out.
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* FanDisservice: A TimePassesMontage that goes along with the AuthorFilibuster has Nana seen in various states of undress, in the course of her depressing life as a prostitute.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Even hookers, according to Nana's pimp, who says that prostitutes practice contraception but abortions after pregnancy are "rare".
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Even hookers, according to Nana's pimp, who says that prostitutes practice contraception but abortions after pregnancy are "rare".
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* TimePassesMontage: The long AuthorFilibuster sequence in which Nana's pimp explains to her and the audience how the world of prostitution works, is accompanied by a montage in which Nana serves a series of clients.
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* RevealingHug: Nana's attitude towards prostitution is revealed by the bored, empty stare she gives out as a john nuzzles her neck. She then takes a drag on a cigarette.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: Only if you know French, where prostitution is called "la vie" or "the life".
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* NoTellMotel: Nana's first trick has her going to a threadbare motel where the guy manning the desk doesn't even bother to ask names.
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* AmicablyDivorced: Nana and her husband Paul seem to get along together quite well even after she abandons him; in one scene he brings her pictures of the baby.
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* TheFaceless: We never get a good look at her husband Paul's face in the first scene, the whole scene is shot with cameras behind the two of them as they sit at a lunch counter and talk. (We never get a look at Nana's face in this scene either, but we see plenty more of her later.)
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* ShoutOut: Nana goes to see ''Film/ThePassionOfJoanOfArc'', a film about men who judge and victimize women.
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* DespairEventHorizon: Nana crosses it when she is evicted from her rented room so she has nowhere to live. She turns to prostitution as a result.
* TheFaceless: We never get a good look at her husband Paul's face in the first scene, the whole scene is shot with cameras behind the two of them as they sit at a lunch counter and talk. (We never get a look at Nana's face in this scene either, but we see plenty more of her later.)
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* DespairEventHorizon: Nana crosses it when she is evicted from her rented room so she has nowhere to live. She turns to prostitution as a result.
novel, ''Nana''.
* DespairEventHorizon: Nana crosses it when she is evicted from her rented room so she has nowhere to live. She turns to prostitution as a result.
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* AuthorFilibuster: The film includes a report on the state of prostition in the arly 60's France. Godard quotes many figures.
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Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux (translated title My Life to Live: A Film in Twelve Scenes) is a 1962 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. Creator/AnnaKarina played the young girl who loses her job and turns to prostitution. She meets several clients as well as philosophers and in the end she is murdered by her pimp during his shootout with the other gangsters.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Nana crosses it when she is evicted from her rented room so she has nowhere to live. She turns to prostitution as a result.
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* AuthourFilibuster: The film includes a report on the state of prostition in the arly 60's France. Godard quotes many figures.
* DownerEnding: Nana is murdered in the last scene.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Played with as Nana is not especially kind-hearted so it is not played straight.
* MeaningfulName: Nana was a famous French XIX-century courtesan.
* MoralEventHorizon: Nana crosses it when she is evicted from her rented room so she has nowhere to live. She turns to prostitution as a result.
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* AuthourFilibuster: The film includes a report on the state of prostition in the arly 60's France. Godard quotes many figures.
* DownerEnding: Nana is murdered in the last scene.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Played with as Nana is not especially kind-hearted so it is not played straight.
* MeaningfulName: Nana was a famous French XIX-century courtesan.
* MoralEventHorizon: Nana crosses it when she is evicted from her rented room so she has nowhere to live. She turns to prostitution as a result.
