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71 out of 100

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7.3 out of 10

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  • Starring: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo
  • Summary: 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)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    100
    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.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    90
    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.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    60
    Godard light, but not lite: Its breezy postures front for melancholia.

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
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