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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.
Written by
Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.as.utexas.edu>
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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, Limited Release
Gross USA:
$99,658, 14 September 2003
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Color:
Color
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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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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Alfred Lubitsch:
Make up your minds. I'd hate to miss "BREATHLESS" - it's on T.V.
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References
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
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Soundtracks
Tu t'laisses aller
(uncredited)
Written by
Charles Aznavour
Performed by
Charles Aznavour with
Paul Mauriat et son Orchestre
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User Reviews
Une femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961) conjures that feeling of acute frustration unique to the work of Jean-Luc Godard: as soon as it achieves some kind of clarity or emotional attractiveness it goes off somewhere else. But if that new diversion isn't working, don't worry - there'll be another one along in a minute. Anna Karina is good as the playful, big-eyed protagonist, who loves her boyfriend (Jean-Claude Brialy) but wants a baby so much she might just have one with her ex (Jean-Paul Belmondo, in another winning performance). The film is brightly-coloured, imaginative and littered with movie in-jokes, containing references to the movies of Godard and his Nouvelle Vague contemporary Francois Truffaut and nods to old Hollywood musicals (Gene Kelly and Bob Fosse are namechecked, Belmondo's surname is Lubitsch). And every so often everything clicks into place: like the terrific snippet in which Belmondo is accused of dodging the rent, the barrage of peculiar noises preceding his anticipated bathroom tryst with Karina or the series of visual gags based on manipulated book titles. But the movie frequently unravels, with long stretches that offer nothing but vivid direction and a feeling that Godard should really watch some of those musical comedies he claims to be homaging. The film's incoherence is mistaken by some critics for freewheeling brilliance, which is a pretty stupid mistake to make.