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A Woman Is a Woman

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A Woman Is a Woman (1960)

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Reviews Counted:28

Fresh:24

Rotten:4

Average Rating:7.4/10

Runtime: 88 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: With A WOMAN IS A WOMAN, French director Jean-Luc Godard pays tribute to American musicals in much the same way that his debut feature, the critical and commercial smash hit BREATHLESS, did to... With A WOMAN IS A WOMAN, French director Jean-Luc Godard pays tribute to American musicals in much the same way that his debut feature, the critical and commercial smash hit BREATHLESS, did to American gangster films. The story follows the beautiful Angela (Anna Karina), a strip-tease artist who wants nothing more than to have a baby. Her live-in boyfriend, Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy), doesn't want to refuse and risk sparking major friction between the two. However, fed up with her constant pleading, Emile finally suggests that she shack up with his best friend, Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo), and much to Emile's dismay, she eventually takes his advice. Godard's second feature employs jump cuts and jarring sound mixing--most notably during Karina's strip-tease performances. A WOMAN IS A WOMAN is Godard at his most affectionate and good-natured. He also makes several cinematic in-jokes, including one in which Belmondo's character mentions that he wants to hurry home to watch BREATHLESS, the film that turned Belmondo into a megastar just one year before. Featuring a magnetically cute performance from Karina, who soon after the film became Godard's wife, this loving romantic comedy is a dazzler. [More]

Starring: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo

Starring: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Composer: Michel Legrand

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It has a certain smugness about it that has always kept me at a distance from enjoying a Godard film.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
07/14/08
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

One of the most enjoyable of all the master's works.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/29/06
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The result is brash, defiant, gaudy and infinitely fragile.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Time Out

No review available.

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07/04/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

it is best known as Godard’s ‘tribute to Hollywood musicals,’ because of some offhand references to such films and his sporadic application of music. It is a playful treat, though it has endured because of the strength of the plot and n

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10/14/04
Douglas Pratt
Douglas Pratt
DVDLaser

Godard remains stubbornly experimental, as in the defiant use of set, the chopped-up bits of Legrand's score looming up throughout; still it somehow charms.

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07/09/04
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

You can sing and dance your way through life, but you'll have to do it naked, with men leering at you.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
06/18/04
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

No review available.

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02/24/04
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

If Jacques Demy had been a sufferer of adult ADHD, he might have made a film very much like Jean-Luc Godard's A Woman is a Woman.

Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | comment Comment
12/27/03
Matt Bailey
Matt Bailey
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

A charming document of the great filmmaker's fanciful yet serious dreams for cinema.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
11/21/03
Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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One of Godard's more approachable and enjoyable films, a black-comic tribute to musical romance

Full Review Source: Movie Habit | comment Comment
11/21/03
Marty Mapes
Marty Mapes
Movie Habit

A Woman Is a Woman is fluff, but quelle mousse.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
11/07/03
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

A Woman Is a Woman may not have the urgency or the contradictions that made early Godard an icon, but in its new incarnation, it takes us back to a time when he could still provide the makings of a good argument.

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11/07/03
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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The most playful film to come out of the French New Wave, it's also the last time Jean-Luc Godard appeared to have any fun.

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09/05/03
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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A playful experiment.

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08/01/03
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Une Femme Est une Femme moves us now because it's so playful and the players are so young.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
07/29/03
Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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A Woman Is a Woman is slight and sometimes wearisome.

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07/25/03
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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A vibrant cinematic romp full of spry, meet-cute banter and teeming with New Wave in-jokes, Godard's 1961 film holds up because it seems far less concerned with the plot proper than the rhythm and spring of its intimate staging.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
07/07/03
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

There's more vitality, more reckless love of the cinema, in any one scene than in a dozen current films.

Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | comment Comment
07/03/03
Gary Mairs
Gary Mairs
culturevulture.net

Full of memorable images and odd flourishes, there's a whole network of gags and cunning cross references and Godard lets the characters move at their own pace, making for a film that's more relaxed and playful than his later work.

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