A Woman is a Woman - Criterion Collection
by Jean-Luc Godard
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Actor: Anna Karina, Henri Attal, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Karyn BalmDirector: Jean-Luc Godard
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Michel Latouche
Cinematographer: Raoul Coutard
Writer: Jean-Luc Godard
Producer: Carlo Ponti
Producer: Georges de Beauregard
Producer: Pierre Braunberger
Writer: Eric Rohmer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of A Woman is a Woman - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: You've let yourself go, I think not
Summary: 4 Stars
Jean-luc Godard's first color film, A WOMAN IS A WOMAN, (Une Femme est une femme) features his then wife Anna Karina, who surprised everyone with her performance. I thought I'd watched every Godard film but came upon this DVD, and watched yesterday. I must first state that I was disheartened by the portrayal of a young woman, her desire to have a baby, her manipulativeness, and her acceptance of demeaning treatment by her boyfriend. Then I remembered that the film was released in 1961 and accepted it as representative of the time, sort of how I accept and love the AMC series, "Mad Men."
From the opening, we know the film was directed by Godard. The music stops and starts. People look into the camera or watch the actors perform. What's a little different is his take on the Hollywood musical and the adorable approach he takes as actors break into song and dance or make comments about previous films. From the start, we see foreshadowing as a young boy follows his mother in her place of employment, a strip club where Angela works in the afternoons. We also expect a sort of menage a trois, with Jean Paul Belmondo (a man whom I adored years ago) entering the scene as a potential paramour of Angela. Communication is enhanced at night by a carrying of the lamp to the books so Jean-Claude Brialy as Emile and Karina's Angela can select the books to create their outre behavior before an otherwise puritanical bedtime.
What put this film over the top for me was the cafe scene where Belmondo selects Charles Aznavour's song, "You've let yourself go" (Tu t'Laisses Aller), a song so preposterous as representative of Angela that it brings the musical comedy to the next level. I enjoyed this film and recommend that you watch it to see the beauty of 1961 in set design, wardrobe, and the reactions of the men on the street when approached, tearing down the wall between filmmaking and reality.
Summary of A Woman is a Woman - Criterion Collection
With A Woman Is a Woman (Une Femme est une femme), compulsively innovative director Jean-Luc Godard presents "a neorealist musical, that is, a contradiction in terms." Featuring French superstars Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Jean-Claude Brialy at their peak of adorability, A Woman Is a Woman is a sly, playful tribute to - and interrogation of - the American musical comedy, showcasing Godard#s signature wit and intellectual acumen. The film tells the story of exotic dancer Ang?la (Karina) as she attempts to have a child with her unwilling lover ?mile (Brialy). In the process, she finds herself torn between him and his best friend Alfred (Belmondo). A dizzying compendium of color, humor, and the music of renowned composer Michel Legrand, A Woman Is a Woman finds the young Godard at his warmest and most accessible, reveling in and scrutinizing the mechanics of his great obsession - the cinema.One of the landmark early films of the French New Wave, director Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) weaves a tale of desperation and deceit. Anna Karina (Vivre Sa Vie) plays a stripper determined to have a child in the hopes that it will better her life. She tries in vain to convince her rough, selfish boyfriend (Jean-Paul Belmondo) to father the child, but he refuses. In desperation and sparked by anger she turns to his best friend to father the child, setting off a new round of recrimination and betrayal. Une Femme Est une Femme is one of Godard's first films and essential viewing for fans of the Nouvelle Vague, to chart the beginnings of the detached mood and style that influenced a coming generation of films. --Robert Lane
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