Word: nana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detached attitude I mentioned comes as no surprise; Godard made his second film, My Life to Live, in a dozen chapters, each elaborately titled, to "distance" the audience from the unfortunate heroine. But no one doubted that his sympathies lay with Nana in that film, however formalistic his presentation. In The Married Woman one simply does not know whether he is subtly making fun of Charlotte or whether he is showing her as the victim of the sexuality that assails her from billboards, magazines, phonograph records, and even overheard conversations. Again, the philosophical discourses that have always marked Godard...
...Human Bondage. When a Hollywood actress begins to hunger for juicier roles, she often ends up playing a tart. Sadie Thompson or maybe Nana. Or sometimes Mildred, the strumpet waitress who dishes out the spice and spite in Somerset Maugham's classic autobiographical novel of the torments of young manhood. Bette Davis flashed on-screen as the first movie Mildred, in 1934. Eleanor Parker entered a low bid in 1946. Now, all Mildred's beads, feather boas, and skin-tight finery bedizen the substantial person of Kim Novak. Though the film will give ordinary moviegoers little pleasure...
TEATRO ESPANOL in Spain's pavilion has sparkling performances by Rosa Durán and the Zambra flamenco dancers, and Virtuosos Antonio Gades, Manuela Vargas, and Nana Lorca. It is the best entertainment at the fair, and only...
...third explanation of her dilemma views Nana as a refugee from the rat race in a hyper-Jules Feifferish world. But Nana cannot be convincing in so many roles at once...
Another problem in characterization arises because Godard tries to present Nana's life as an example of a way to salvation. In. her attempt to combine the roles of philosopher, sexual deviant and refugee from Feiffer's world, she seems too pathetic to be a model...