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Angela,a striptease artist, wants to have a baby and tries to persuade her boyfriend Emile to go along with the idea. Emile will have none of it so she goes after Emile's friend Alfred.
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Release Date:
6 September 1961 (France)
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Also Known As:
A Woman Is a Woman
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Box Office
Budget:
$160,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend USA:
$13,213,
18 May 2003
Gross USA:
$100,665
Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$100,665
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Trivia
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #238.
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Goofs
When Angela first meets Alfred on the street, the red and blue armband he wears changes from his right to his left arm between the start and end of the scene
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Quotes
Alfred Lubitsch:
Answer yes, and I owe you 100 francs. Answer no, and you owe me 100, okay?
Bar Owner:
Okay.
Alfred Lubitsch:
Here's the question: Can you loan me 100 francs?
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Connections
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Soundtracks
Chanson d'Angela
(uncredited)
Composed by
Michel Legrand
Lyrics by
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User Reviews
It's always fascinating to watch Godard operate outside of his beloved gangster/noir thing, just to see if he can he do it- or how he'll do it. "A Woman Is A Woman" not only proves he has a flair for romantic comedy, but that he has made quite an extraordinary one. This movie is so charming and funny that it puts the assembly-line Hollywood romantic comedies to shame.
I've never thought Anna Karina was a great actress, but she is a good one, plus has the added benefit of a natural beauty and presence on-camera that really makes a star a star. She is a one-of-a-kind performer, and her lilting, flitting style fits remarkably well with Godard's roving camera in this light-headed, light-hearted story about a young girl working as a stripper who desperately wants to have a baby with her boyfriend Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy).
But the thing that sets the film apart from others in this mostly trite genre is Godard's unique style: the use of on-screen graphics to give insights into the character's motives, the all-too-sly speaking directly to the camera, the stop-start of the film's scoring, the accentuation of moments and dialogue by music which is extremely well-done. I loved the scene where Karina and Brialy, "not speaking", speak to each other with book notes, concluding in "all women to the firing squad". His conception of the Zodiac club is hilarious; it might be the tamest strip club in world history (it looks like a little Italian restaurant). And Godard is an absolute genius at writing small talk that sounds interesting and funny. It is a rare gift, and he doesn't get enough credit for it. In a genre like romantic comedy, where the subject matter is so trivial, to be able to sustain an entire motion picture just on small talk is no small accomplishment.
I highly recommend this picture for fans of good romantic comedy-it might be the best ever of this type. "A Woman Is A Woman" may be lightweight as Godard's films go, but it's exceptional as well. 3 *** out of 4