A Woman Is a Woman

3.00
    A Woman Is a Woman
    1961

    Synopsis

    Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

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      Cast

      • Jean-Claude BrialyÉmile Récamier
      • Anna KarinaAngela
      • Jean-Paul BelmondoAlfred Lubitsch
      • Henri AttalFake Blind #2 (uncredited)
      • Karyn Balm(uncredited)
      • Dorothée BlanckProstitute 3 (uncredited)
      • Catherine DemongeotMagazine Girl (uncredited)
      • Marie DuboisAngela's Friend (uncredited)
      • Ernest MenzerBar Owner (uncredited)
      • Jeanne MoreauWoman in Bar (uncredited)

      Recommendations

      • 100

        Chicago Tribune

        Moves us now because it's so playful and the players are so young - and because later, when Godard tried to play for keeps, in his self-consciously radical films of the late '60s and '70s, he began to lose his game.
      • 90

        The New York Times

        It is the work of a master -- of more than one, for that matter. Mr. Godard, who once called it "my first real film," was showing the obsession with, and mastery of, cinematic technique that would make him one of the culture heroes of the 1960's.
      • 80

        TV Guide Magazine

        Godard's third feature film and his first in color, A Woman is a Woman is one of the most enjoyable of all the master's works.
      • 70

        L.A. Weekly

        There are a couple of absurdly nonchalant song-and-dance sequences, though mostly, Michel Legrand's sumptuous music swells in anticipation of showstoppers that never happen.
      • 70

        The New Yorker

        More than forty years have passed since A Woman Is a Woman won the Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival for "originality, youth, audacity, impertinence." (When did you last see a movie that might warrant such an award?) [26 May 2003, p. 102]
      • 60

        Village Voice

        Godard light, but not lite: Its breezy postures front for melancholia.
      • 60

        Variety

        Only intermittently bright. Too much homage to Yank musicals and comedies point up the lack of polish.
      • 60

        Chicago Reader

        While its slender plot (stripper Karina wants a baby and turns to Belmondo when her boyfriend Brialy won't oblige her) can irritate in spots, the film's high spirits may still win you over.

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