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100
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Chicago Tribune 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.
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90
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The New York Times 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.
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88
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Boston Globe 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.
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80
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TV Guide
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.
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70
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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.
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70
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The New Yorker 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]
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60
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Variety
Only intermittently bright. Too much homage to Yank musicals and comedies point up the lack of polish.
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60
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Village Voice Jessica Winter
Godard light, but not lite: Its breezy postures front for melancholia.
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50
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Slight and sometimes wearisome.
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40
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Film Threat 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.
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