A Woman Is a Woman

A Woman Is a Woman

Infobox Film | name = A Woman Is a Woman


caption = Film poster
director = Jean-Luc Godard
producer = Carlo Ponti Georges de Beauregard
writer = Jean-Luc Godard
starring = Jean-Claude Brialy Anna Karina Jean-Paul Belmondo
music = Michel Legrand
cinematography = Raoul Coutard
editing = Agnès Guillemot Lila Herman
distributor =
released = September 6, 1961
runtime = 85 min.
language = French
budget = $160,000 (estimated)
amg_id = 1:55077
imdb_id = 0055572

"A Woman Is a Woman" (original French title "Une Femme est une femme") is a 1961 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

Featuring Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Jean-Claude Brialy, "A Woman is a Woman" is a playful tribute to American musical comedy and is part of the French New Wave.

Plot

The film tells the story of exotic dancer Angéla (Anna Karina) as she attempts to have a child with her unwilling lover Émile (Jean-Claude Brialy). Rather than ever having a proper discussion, Angela and Emile prefer to trivialise serious matters, for example, arguing using book titles, and argue about trivialities, such as Angela's pronunciation of the letter "r". In the process, she finds herself torn between him and his best friend Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo), who constantly insists that he is in love with her.

References

There are many references to other films of the French New Wave throughout the film, including:
*"A bout de souffle" (another film by Godard and Truffaut; also starred Jean-Paul Belmondo)
*"Shoot the Piano Player" (a film by Truffaut)
*"Jules et Jim" (Jeanne Moreau makes an uncredited cameo, when Alfred asks her "How's it going with Jules et Jim?")
*There are also multiple references to the singer, Charles Aznavour.

See also

* Cinema of France
* List of French language films

External links

*
* [http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=238&eid=361&section=essay Criterion Collection essay by J. Hoberman]


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