A Woman Is a Woman
- Anna Karina: Angela Recamier
- Jean -Claude Brialy: Émile
- Jean -Paul Belmondo: Alfred Lubitsch
A Woman Is a Woman ( Original title: Une femme est une femme ) is a French musical comedy in the style of the Nouvelle Vague by Jean -Luc Godard in 1961 It was the first feature film by Jean -Luc Godard, which was filmed in CinemaScope. , it is also his first color film. The film is about a Burlesquetänzerin, Angela, which harbors an immediate desire to have children, her boyfriend, Émile, but does not want to engage in it so quickly. To achieve their goal, Angela Émile threatens his best friend, Alfred, to make a child.
Action
The bookseller Émile and the stripper Angela lead seemingly a normal relationship life with all its ups and downs. When the young woman but her boyfriend out of the blue reveals that she wants to be made in the next few hours to a mother who bagged the Émile heart sank and he shows little pleased. However, when she insists and says she can be necessary even by their mutual friend Alfred, who has thrown for quite some time keeping an eye on Angela, pregnant, Émile reacts indifferently and replied in anger even that they should do this quietly, if it makes them happy.
Criticism
"A woman is a woman " was generally received by critics, positive.
Ty Burr says, A woman is a woman is " the spielerischste film of the French New Wave, and it seems also the last film by Jean -Luc Godard to be, in which he had fun."
The lexicon of the International film also analyzed the cinematic means; the film, " Godard's first experiment with direct sound, color and Cinemascope is inspired by the musical and of Hollywood comedies of the 30s. However, Godard copied the models not naive, but analyzes their elements (eg music, color); he is interested in the story being told less than the narrative method. Therefore, the performers sometimes talk directly to the audience, thus appear for the first time printed words on the screen. Nevertheless, this " idea of a musical" ( Godard ), a wholly unernster film was. "