A Woman Is a Woman

Name: A Woman Is a Woman
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance, Musical
Released: May 16, 2003
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 71
Cast: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo

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Pathé Contemporary Films | Release Date: May 16, 2003

Starring: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo

Summary: [Originally released in France in 1961; first U.S. release in 2003.] Angela, an afternoon stripper in the sleazy Zodiac Club, yearns for motherhood "just because," but live-in boyfriend Jean-Claude Brialy "isn't ready yet," though hanger-on Jean-Paul Belmondo is more than happy to help out. (Film Forum)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance, Musical

Runtime: 84 min

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Michael Wilmington

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. Read full review

Dana Stevens

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. Read full review

Ty Burr

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. Read full review

Anthony Lane

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]

Jessica Winter

Godard light, but not lite: Its breezy postures front for melancholia. Read full review

Staff (Not credited)

Only intermittently bright. Too much homage to Yank musicals and comedies point up the lack of polish. Read full review

Phil Hall

What may have seemed energetic and innovative four decades ago is fairly enervated today, and only the most rabid Godard fanatics will find reason to seek out its new theatrical re-release. Read full review

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