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    A Woman Is a Woman / Une femme est une femme (1961) [The Criterion Collection #238 - Out of Print] [Re-UP]

    A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
    DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover | 01:23:58 | 6,62 Gb
    Audio: French AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
    Genre: Art-house | The Criterion Collection #238

    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Stars: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo

    With A Woman Is a Woman (Une femme est une femme), compulsively innovative director Jean-Luc Godard presents “a neorealist musical—that is, a contradiction in terms.” Featuring French superstars Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Jean-Claude Brialy at their peak of popularity, A Woman Is a Woman is a sly, playful tribute to—and interrogation of—the American musical comedy, showcasing Godard’s signature wit and intellectual acumen. The film tells the story of exotic dancer Angéla (Karina) as she attempts to have a child with her unwilling lover Émile (Brialy). In the process, she finds herself torn between him and his best friend Alfred (Belmondo). A dizzying compendium of color, humor, and the music of renowned composer Michel Legrand, A Woman Is a Woman finds the young Godard at his warmest and most accessible, reveling in and scrutinizing the mechanics of his great obsession: the cinema.

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    A Woman Is a Woman / Une femme est une femme (1961) [The Criterion Collection #238 - Out of Print] [Re-UP]

    With our new "musical renaissance" at hand, modern audiences may just be about ready to handle Jean-Luc Godard's second feature, A Woman Is a Woman, made in 1961, just after Breathless.

    By the same token, it will probably take about 40 years for audiences to be ready for Godard's most recent film, In Praise of Love.

    A Woman Is a Woman / Une femme est une femme (1961) [The Criterion Collection #238 - Out of Print] [Re-UP]

    With A Woman Is a Woman Godard pays a rather obvious and loving tribute to musicals by Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. For that purpose, he gave up the low-budget, black-and-white, hand-held look of Breathless, and switched to a giant Cinemascope frame and full color.

    The simple, and almost ludicrous plot has Godard's wife/muse Anna Karina playing Angela, a stripper who wants a baby. Her boyfriend Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy) won't give her one. So she turns to Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo), her second choice, to make her wish come true.

    A Woman Is a Woman / Une femme est une femme (1961) [The Criterion Collection #238 - Out of Print] [Re-UP]

    No one really sings or dances, and Michel Legrand's amazing score purposely feels at odds with the movie. It just suddenly appears from time to time, as if wrestling with the images, flip-flopping and vying for prominence. It's a strange effect, but somehow the picture still has the overwhelming giddiness of a normal musical.

    Godard feels right at home with the new format, using the widescreen to clever dramatic effect – swinging the camera back and forth to emphasize the distance between Angela and Emile – or layering Karina across the screen, doubling her with the many mirrors she uses to gaze at herself.

    A Woman Is a Woman / Une femme est une femme (1961) [The Criterion Collection #238 - Out of Print] [Re-UP]

    She comes across more playful and less severe than in her other pictures with Godard; she's almost like an Audrey Hepburn gamine, hopping around in pigtails and daring everyone not to find her adorable.

    Film-savvy viewers will enjoy Godard's many references, from jabs at his pal Francois Truffaut, to a little number in which Angela announces that she wants to be in a musical with Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly and choreographed by Bob Fosse. Characters often regard and wink directly at the audience, such as when Belmondo complains that he doesn't want to miss Breathless on TV. (Belmondo was the ultra-cool star of that film.)

    A Woman Is a Woman / Une femme est une femme (1961) [The Criterion Collection #238 - Out of Print] [Re-UP]

    As always, Godard is more interested in making a comment on the musical than in creating one of his own. The ideas run rampant though A Woman Is a Woman. At one point, one confused character admits that he doesn't know if this is a comedy or a tragedy. "But it's a masterpiece," he says. No question.
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    A Woman Is a Woman / Une femme est une femme (1961) [The Criterion Collection #238 - Out of Print] [Re-UP]

    Jean-Luc Godard's A Woman is A Woman, along with his great My Life to Live, remains one of the director's more accessible works. Never heavy-handed, the film defies genre-placement. This subversive musical celebrates female empowerment and takes sly jabs at Hollywood film conventions. Godard's use of music is at its best here, not to be rivaled until the impeccable, metallic soundscape of Alphaville. Godard pokes fun at film tropes such as the inconsequential supporting players when two detectives inexplicably invade the home of Angela (Anna Karina) and her boyfriend Emile (Jan-Clause Brialy).

    A Woman Is a Woman / Une femme est une femme (1961) [The Criterion Collection #238 - Out of Print] [Re-UP]

    The film's absurd underpinnings are heightened by Emile's need to ride around his apartment on a bicycle. When he refuses to impregnate her, Anna turns to Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo) to do the job. Godard is a man who loves women but has never really understood them though you'd never know it from watching A Woman is A Woman. Angela's emotional turmoil is flatteringly complimented by Godard's formal yet airy compositions. Angela may be stubborn and irrational but she's completely hellbent on self-actualization. Godard's pastiche is self-consciously tongue-in-cheek, riddled with constant references to other films: Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player is mentioned during a game of charades and one character asks "how Jules and Jim is progressing." Godard's especially potent reference to Breathless is an act of self-love. A Woman is a Woman, in the end, is less a film about the perils of romantic love as it is an act of love for the creation of film.
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    A Woman Is a Woman / Une femme est une femme (1961) [The Criterion Collection #238 - Out of Print] [Re-UP]

    Special Features:
    - New high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Raoul Coutard, with restored image and sound and enhanced for widescreen televisions
    - Charlotte et Véronique ou Tous les garçons s’appellent Patrick (All the Boys Are Called Patrick, 1957), an early short film by Godard with Jean-Claude Brialy, written by Eric Rohmer
    - “Qui êtes-vous Anna Karina?”; excerpts from a 1966 French television interview with Karina, Brialy, and Serge Gainsbourg
    - Publicity for A Woman Is a Woman featuring the original trailer, rare on-set photos by photographer Raymond Cauchetier, a poster and stills gallery, and an audio promotional recording for the film
    - New and improved English subtitle translation
    - Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

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