“Je ne sais ni A ni B”

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The paper aims to investigate the presence of Dreyer’s La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1927) in Jean-Luc Godard’s Vivre sa vie (1962) and Notre musique (2004). Through an analysis of the shot and reverse shot technique employed by Godard in the sequences in which Nana and Olga converse with Dreyer’s film, the contribution attempts to show how the Godard work can open a destitute image of woman, the embodiment of an escape from any order of discourse.