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Woman Is a Woman, A (re-release)

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Woman Is a Woman, A (re-release) reviews
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7.3 User Score:

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Based on 11 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Romance

Written by: Jean-Luc Godard

Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard

Release Date:
Theatrical: May 16, 2003
DVD: October 1, 2002

Running Time: 84 minutes, Color

Origin: France / Italy

Language(s): French (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Jean-Claude Brialy, Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Dubois, Ernest Menzer, Marion Sarraut, Gisèle Sandré, and Nicole Paquin

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)

What The Critics Said

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100

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

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

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

TV Guide Staff (Not credited)

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

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]

70

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

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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60

Village Voice Jessica Winter

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

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60

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

While its slender plot (stripper Karina wants a baby and turns to Belmondo when her boyfriend Brialy won't oblige her) can irritate in spots, the film's high spirits may still win you over.

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60

Variety Staff (Not credited)

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

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50

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Slight and sometimes wearisome.

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40

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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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jared SS gave it a 9:
A pleasure and a half to watch! I was a huge Godardian prior to my viewing of this film, but this just solidified my love for the most technically innovative filmmaker of all-time. It's no coincidence that the first three letters in Godard's name are G-O-D. Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo are great together as usual.

Yoon Min C. gave it a 3:
One of Godard's worst. Before Godard became an insufferable intellectual crank he was capable of romantic expression in such memorable films as Breathless, Band of Outsiders, Alphaville, etc. Not even that saves this clunker. A throwaway movie, a case of artistic fidgeting(off excess creativity?). Similar to Wong Kar Wai's Chungking Express, another pointless exercise in pointlessness.

Jack S. gave it a 10:
Simply wonderful! The movie has help up superbly after 40 years. Anna Karina sparkles and Godard's camera clearly adores her.

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