With dark-rimmed eyes and her iconic bob haircut, Anna Karina stuns as Nana, a restless young Parisian who descends into prostitution when her aspirations to become an actress falter. Recently separated from her husband, Nana is completely alone except for her heartless pimp and the women she knows from hooking in the banlieue. Godard goes bleak here while retaining his dazzling visual ingenuity: The close shots of Nana's face as she watches the close shots of Maria Falconetti's face in Dreyer's THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC are silently moving, while Nana's pool hall dance of gleeful abandon is now a classic New Wave moment. In French with English subtitles.