Found on YouTube: Cyd Charisse, she's not. She's sort of gangly and awkward as she traipses between the billiard tables and the dumbly indifferent men. Nana's exhuberance is infectious though, even if we do see it as her desperate buffer against the emotional pricks and jabs her mess of a life now sadly accords. Her sauntering legkicks and broad smiles belie her darkly cornered state, even as she attempts to elicit the simplest of grins or at least one bare nod of scknowledgement from the impassive men around her; men who ultimately, as any viewer of Vivre Se Vie can attest, would be her undoing. At the end of the dance, Nana spirals into exhaustion. Is it a surrender? As one of Godard's subtitles for this one of twelve tableaux reads: "- there's no gaiety in happiness-". The actress in the scene is, of course, the sublime Anna Karina. The scene is from Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live), only Jean-Luc Godard's fourth film; also his saddest and most human. Watch the clip here, or click on the image.
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