Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31203 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-01-07
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: French
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 80 minutes

Synopsis
With UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME, French director Jean-Luc Godard pays tribute to American musicals in much the same way that his debut feature, the critical and commercial smash hit BREATHLESS, did to American gangster films. The story follows the beautiful Angela (Anna Karina), a strip-tease artist who wants nothing more than to have a baby. Her live-in boyfriend, Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy), doesn't want to refuse and risk sparking major friction between the two. However, fed up with her constant pleading, Emile finally suggests that she shack up with his best friend, Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo), and much to Emile’s dismay, she eventually takes his advice. Godard's second feature employs jump cuts and jarring sound mixing--most notably during Karina's strip-tease performances. UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME is Godard at his most affectionate and good-natured. He also makes several cinematic in-jokes, including one in which Belmondo's character mentions that he wants to hurry home to watch BREATHLESS, the film that turned Belmondo into a megastar just one year before. Featuring a magnetically cute performance from Karina, who soon after the film became Godard's wife, this loving romantic comedy is a dazzler.

Customer Reviews

Whimsical comedy
Whimsical nouvelle vague film. An acquired taste. Only Jean Paul Belmondo is really good in it.

Crap!
I like Goddard's work just as much as the next man, but this . . . .

I know that every great artist is allowed one mistake but this has to rank as one of the worst movies ever. Admittedly it is adventerous, for its time but Goddard's methods only heighten the fact the irritation one gets from sitting through this.

It's a pretty short film but watching it seemed like an eternity.

Anna Karina is truely awful in this.

It is not a film to introduce you to Goddard and if you are a fan but havn't seen this, take my word for it. Ask Amazon for the money and then chuck the bloody thing!