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Anna Karina,
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Jean-Luc Godard,
Jean-Luc Godard
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: Criterion
: Comedies, Foreign, Romantic Comedy, France, Criterion Collection
: 84 min.
: French
: English
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Director Jean-Luc Godard's deceptively blithe tribute to the musical comedy features Anna Karina as an exotic dancer who decides that it is time for her to have a child. When her lover refuses to commit to the decision, she turns her romantic attentions to his best friend. This being a Godard film, the straightforward story serves as a framework for improvisation and stylistic experimentation, allowing for odd interludes and unexpected images. Rather than the sometimes alienating, dense intellectualism of later Godard works, Une femme est une femme offers aesthetic pleasure through luxurious visuals and a charming musical score by Michel Legrand. Against this bright backdrop, Karina proves particularly fetching, capturing the film's frolicsome mood in an unforced manner. While not one of Godard's most groundbreaking or influential films, Une femme est une femme is one of his most appealing and pleasurable efforts. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide
Special features: - CHARLOTTE ET VERONIQUE OU TOUS LES GARCONS S'APPELLENT PATRICK (ALL BOYS ARE CALLED PATRICK, 1957), an early short film by Godard with Jean-Claude Brialy, written by Eric Rohmer
- "Qui êtes-vous Anna Karina?"; excerpts from a 1966 French television interview with Karina, Brialy, and Serge Gainsbourg
- Publicity for A WOMAN IS A WOMAN featuring the original trailer, rare on-set photos by photographer Raymond Cauchetier, a poster and stills gallery, and an audio promotional recording for the film
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| Preferable to the Dentist's Drill (but just barely)
by talltale
August 28, 2006 - 3:00 PM PDT
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1 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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It's not often that a so-called "classic" sets your teeth on edge as severely as A WOMAN IS A WOMAN did mine (the cutesy visuals are akin to running a cheese grater over your eyes, and the dialog mimics fingernails on a blackboard). Yes, I know that this is the product of sacrosanct director Jean-Luc-Godard, but it's a crock, start to finish. That the three leads--Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy and Jean-Paul Belmondo--are in their drop-dead-gorgeous prime is the only thing that makes the movie remotely watchable.
It may have turned heads upon its 1961 debut (I recall finding it questionable even then), but today? Oy, vey. It seems both precious and pointless in the extreme. While I realize that certain affectations may have struck audiences as novel nearly a half century ago, any good stuff has been appropriated many times over by other, better films. One so-so joke was even used--to much funnier effect--in the 1988 "Return of the Killer Tomatoes." (I wonder if George Clooney, who's as good in "Tomatoes" as these Frenchies are in "Femme," realizes that his early film boasts such a "classic" provenance?) |
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