| Preferable to the Dentist's Drill (but just barely) |
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| written by talltale |
August 28, 2006 - 3:00 PM PDT |
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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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