Vivre sa vie

Thought about “Vivre Sa Vie” soon after watching “Synecdoche”.  If the view were widely held it would probably make Charlie Kaufman unemployable but Godard is an obvious antecedent.  Maybe “antecedent” is too strong.  What word am I looking for?  Can words, in the end, ever be expected to convey what we mean?  I should ask the geezer above.

Godard, as much as any filmmaker, opened the medium up to its inherent and distinct possibilities. Godard is political, Kaufman is not.  Why then did I think of “Vivre Sa Vie”?  Because for all of Godard’s formal reinvention and Brechtian distancing in “Vivre Sa Vie” the form of the film ended up serving the story.  The final moments of the picture are heartbreaking.

That’s Anna Karina and Brice Parain above.  Godard doesn’t waste time,  if he wants to get at something he’ll have his protagonist sit down and talk language with one its leading philosophers.