Woman is a Woman
An intoxicating expression of that devotion, and of the idea...that movie love was the stuff that movies could be made of.
-- A.O. Scott, New York Times
A Woman is a Woman
When Angela (Anna Karina) wants to have a baby, but finds her boyfriend Émile (Jean-Claude Brialy) an unwilling participant, she goes to his friend Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo), proving the lengths to which she'll go to realize her dream. Festooned with enough eccentric musical moments to satisfy the most avant of gardists, including a Charles Aznavour song almost arbitrarily rocketing on and off the soundtrack and Michel Legrand's pre-Umbrellas of Cherbourg score thundering into split-second breaks in dialogue, cinematic in-jokes galore, and plenty of anarchic humor, A Woman is a Woman is a cinephile's dream film.
A jeu d'esprit of the New Wave that won a jury prize from the Berlin Film Festival for its "originality, youth, audacity and impertinence," while the enchanting Karina (in her first major role) was named Best Actress.
“If all Jean-Luc Godard needed to make Breathless was a girl, a guy, and a gun, then all he needed to create the CinemaScopic romantic comedy A Woman is a Woman was a love triangle between Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and JeanClaude Brialy. Both an embrace and a rejection of the trappings of the American musical comedy, it’s one of Godard’s chicest and most accessible movies.” — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire
“Deliriously kooky!" ~ Time Out New York
A jeu d'esprit of the New Wave that won a jury prize from the Berlin Film Festival for its "originality, youth, audacity and impertinence," while the enchanting Karina (in her first major role) was named Best Actress.
“If all Jean-Luc Godard needed to make Breathless was a girl, a guy, and a gun, then all he needed to create the CinemaScopic romantic comedy A Woman is a Woman was a love triangle between Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and JeanClaude Brialy. Both an embrace and a rejection of the trappings of the American musical comedy, it’s one of Godard’s chicest and most accessible movies.” — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire
“Deliriously kooky!" ~ Time Out New York
Genre
Repertory,
Auteur Cinema,
French Cinema,
Comedy,
Romance,
Musical
Runtime
84
Language
French
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Writer(s)
Jean-Luc Godard
Cast
Anna Karina,
Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Jean-Claude Brialy
Awards:
Winner, Silver Berlin Bear ~ Best Actress, Berlin International Film Festival
Nominee, Golden Bear, Berlin International Film Festival
Played at
Royal 3.21.25 - 3.27.25
Glendale 3.28.25 - 4.03.25
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