The result is brash, defiant, gaudy and infinitely fragile.
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01/26/06
A Woman Is a Woman (1960)
86 %
Reviews Counted: 28 Fresh: 24 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.4/10
Runtime: 88 mins
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 American gangster films. The story follows the beautiful Angela (Anna Karina), a strip-tease... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo
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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.
05/24/03
Top Critic
It has a certain smugness about it that has always kept me at a distance from enjoying a Godard film.
07/14/08
Top Critic
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.
07/09/04
You can sing and dance your way through life, but you'll have to do it naked, with men leering at you.
06/18/04
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.
12/27/03
A charming document of the great filmmaker's fanciful yet serious dreams for cinema.
11/21/03
One of Godard's more approachable and enjoyable films, a black-comic tribute to musical romance
11/21/03
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.
11/07/03
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.
09/05/03
Une Femme Est une Femme moves us now because it's so playful and the players are so young.
07/29/03
Top Critic
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.
07/07/03
There's more vitality, more reckless love of the cinema, in any one scene than in a dozen current films.
07/03/03
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