Oedipa Maas and Godard's Vivre Sa Vie

[Fiona Shnapple]

Wow! Worth looking into

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Brian Grygotis
<seacastle.worldofmotion at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all-
>
> In Jean-Luc Godard's 1962 film Vivre Sa Vie, there is a tableau (#3) in
> which the protagonist Nana watches The Passion of Joan of Arc and cries as
> Joan is being prepared for death. As I understand it, Nana is to be seen as
> a martyr, and her turn to prostitution is to be read as an act of martyrdom.
> Could it be that TRP used this scene as an inspiration for Oedipa crying at
> Remedios Varos' “Bordando el Manto Terrestre"? While the occupational
> contexts are different (prostitute vs. executrix) both instances are
> concerned with foreshadowing the protagonist's sense of self.
>
> Curious to hear everyone's thoughts regarding this.
>
> B
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