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... [More]
Starring: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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Reviews for A Woman Is a Woman
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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 |
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 4/4 |
One of the most enjoyable of all the master's works. Full Review |
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The result is brash, defiant, gaudy and infinitely fragile. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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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4/5 |
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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4/5 |
You can sing and dance your way through life, but you'll have to do it naked, with men leering at you. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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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 |
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3/4 |
A charming document of the great filmmaker's fanciful yet serious dreams for cinema. Full Review |
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3/4 |
One of Godard's more approachable and enjoyable films, a black-comic tribute to musical romance Full Review |
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A Woman Is a Woman is fluff, but quelle mousse. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
A playful experiment. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Une Femme Est une Femme moves us now because it's so playful and the players are so young. Full Review |
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2/4 |
A Woman Is a Woman is slight and sometimes wearisome. Full Review |
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B |
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 |
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There's more vitality, more reckless love of the cinema, in any one scene than in a dozen current films. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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