A Woman Is a Woman

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Jean-Luc Godard
Production: Rialto Pictures
  2 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
NOT RATED
Year:
1961
84 min
Website
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THE BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

TO A WOMAN IS A WOMAN

FOR ITS ORIGINALITY, YOUTHFULNESS,

DARING AND IMPERTINENCE.

BEST ACTRESS:
ANNA KARINA

FOR A DISPLAY OF QUALITIES

RARE IN A NEWCOMER.

ONCE:

UPON A TIME:

Coffee, very white.

A coffee, green.

What time is it?

It's too hot. Gotta run.

I'M EXPECTING A BABY

SLEEPING BEAUTY:

How about this?

You don't have anything sexier?

Let's go, children.

Hi.

Still mad?

- No, precious.

- Then you love me?

Yes...

my precious!

Look.

What a pretty postcard, Emile.

Why are you crying?

Because I'd like to be

both yellow animals at the same time.

Always asking for the impossible.

I'll take my drum and beat it.

Hi, Angela.

You look so sad.

Not at all.

We have to talk.

Go take a long walk somewhere else.

This is serious.

I don't have time. I'm late.

What're you thinking?

Nothing.

I think I exist.

There she goes.

Hurry, Angela.

Hi, kids.

Happy unbirthday.

Got my newspaper for the horoscope?

Read mine:
Virgo.

- You go on before Daniele, so hurry.

- What for?

Ask Luciano.

- A pack of Gitanes.

- Ten francs.

You'll get your money.

Dominique out of the hospitaI?

- She has your thingamajig.

What's this? It's so cute.

I got it at the department store.

Really cute.

Did you read the horoscope?

"Virgo...

Romance:

A blessed event is on the way. "

No kidding.

This is great.

Seen my new act?

Watch this.

Great.

Did you go to the Champs Elysees?

- Why not?

- Because.

- Meaning?

- There are more important things to do.

Hurry, Angela. You're on soon.

- Here I am.

- I have your thing.

- How does it work?

- It's easy.

I'll put it in the drawer.

Okay.

You'll be like the man

who saw the man

who saw the man

who saw the man

who saw the bear.

"Creations of art are the 40 days

of nature's glorious life. "

People usually admire

That tower built by Eiffel

But I'd rather take in

Angela, who's an eyeful

People always wonder why

Men go crazy when I walk by

It's simple, really

The truth is plain to see

I've got breasts

to make men holler

And eyes like purple gems

A little sailor's collar

And panties made of...

I just hate it when it's early

And I'm pulled out of the sack

I just love it when

Someone strokes my back

I'm the kind who always says:

Yessiree

When a fella says:

C'mon, sweetie

Because when a guy gets amorous

That's no time to make a fuss

I'm not the kind of girl to behave

I'm really very cruel

But men never rant and rave

Because I am

Beauti...

ful

- Let me try.

- Sure.

Great.

How does it work?

I'm for the rhythm method.

- Really?

- It worked for Cherie's kid.

Don't listen to her.

This is scientific.

Bianchini wants girls for Marseilles.

A 400 francs salary.

- Sign here.

- Can I bring my iron?

- Where will we stay?

- At a hoteI.

- Can we do laundry?

- Sure.

Coming, Angela?

- I don't want to.

Anyway, I hate the Riviera.

Red stocking, bluestocking.

You, Angela, no time?

Me, Angela, no time.

- Me?

- Yes, you.

You owe the HoteI Bikini 520 francs?

- Me?

- July 9.

You left without paying the bill.

Wait. I'll tell you.

I write down everything I do.

October, September...

July...

July 20.

July 9.

You've got it all wrong.

"10:
00 a. m.: Call PauI to play cards.

Noon...

lunch at the snack bar.

You're right.

"Left HoteI Bikini without paying. "

So you gonna pay up?

No, never.

Jerk.

- Creep.

- Son of a b*tch.

- Pain in the ass.

- Shithead.

- Wandering Jew.

- Fascist.

Pervert.

Why didn't you wait for me?

I have important things to do.

Isn't it important that I want you?

Funny, isn't it?

It's darker now than an hour ago.

It's not funny.

Then it's not funny.

Then why say it's funny?

I don't know. I'm sad.

You're a funny girI.

How's Agnes doing?

Did she have her baby?

Dunno.

It's none of my business now.

You're a funny guy.

You really don't care

if I'm interested in you?

In French, if the adjective

comes after the noun instead of before,

is the meaning the same?

What d'you mean?

For example,

is a "blessed event"

the same as "an event that's blessed"?

Is that why you're sad?

Then why?

Because I'd like to be

in a musicaI comedy

starring Cyd Charisse

and Gene Kelly.

Choreography...

by Bob Fosse.

What now?

You didn't say good-bye.

Missed.

Yesterday you asked

why I love Emile and not you.

Because he's handsome and clever.

You're not.

I'm very clever.

Really?

I bet you can't do everything I can.

Try me.

Thanks for the roast.

You're welcome, Mrs. Recamier.

I've got something to tell you.

Not now.

"Madam...

the Cycle Day Indicator

enables you to determine,

with scientific precision,

the days when you're fertile. "

"With scientific precision. "

"Hold the white ring

between the fingers of your left hand.

Turn the black cylinder...

with your right hand...

untiI the triangle is opposite

the zero. "

"The days you can conceive

will now appear

in the window of the cylinder. "

November 10.

What's today?

What's that scarf?

I treated myself

to an early Christmas gift.

Here's your Marie-Claire.

- Is the match over?

- What match?

Goddamn it, Angela!

The Madrid-Barcelona match!

I told you to tune in!

I have to do everything!

What's wrong now?

Before acting out our little farce,

we bow to the audience.

What's wrong?

You don't love me.

Listen to this fooI!

Listen to this idiot!

I love only you!

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (French: [ʒɑ̃lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement.Like his New Wave contemporaries, Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality", which "emphasized craft over innovation, privileged established directors over new directors, and preferred the great works of the past to experimentation." As a result of such argument, he and like-minded critics started to make their own films. Many of Godard's films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. In 1964, Godard described his and his colleagues' impact: "We barged into the cinema like cavemen into the Versailles of Louis XV." He is often considered the most radical French filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s; his approach in film conventions, politics and philosophies made him arguably the most influential director of the French New Wave. Along with showing knowledge of film history through homages and references, several of his films expressed his political views; he was an avid reader of existential and Marxist philosophy. Since the New Wave, his politics have been much less radical and his recent films are about representation and human conflict from a humanist, and a Marxist perspective.In a 2002 Sight & Sound poll, Godard ranked third in the critics' top-ten directors of all time (which was put together by assembling the directors of the individual films for which the critics voted). He is said to have "created one of the largest bodies of critical analysis of any filmmaker since the mid-twentieth century." He and his work have been central to narrative theory and have "challenged both commercial narrative cinema norms and film criticism's vocabulary." In 2010, Godard was awarded an Academy Honorary Award, but did not attend the award ceremony. Godard's films have inspired many directors including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, Steven Soderbergh, D. A. Pennebaker, Robert Altman, Jim Jarmusch, Wong Kar-wai, Wim Wenders, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.From his father, he is the cousin of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, former President of Peru. He has been married twice, to actresses Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky, both of whom starred in several of his films. His collaborations with Karina—which included such critically acclaimed films as Bande à part (1964) and Pierrot le Fou (1965)—was called "arguably the most influential body of work in the history of cinema" by Filmmaker magazine. more…

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