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  Review by karsten ★★★★ 24

  I really love the poster for this movie. the circles, the reds, the text all spaced out like that, the white background. MUAH!
  The movie? Also really nice to look at. I want to know what PTA has to say about it because stylistically it is clear as day that Punch-Drunk Love was directly influenced by this. The lens flares, the wide shots, the blue suit and red dress.
  It took me a while to calibrate my brain for this movie. The rhythm of any of Godard’s films is the equivalent to the song “gecgecgec” by 100 gecs. This is the only place you’ll find a 100 gecs reference in a Godard review. But my point is once things do start to click and you embrace that rhythm, everything makes a little bit more sense. I’ll probably appreciate this more on a rewatch.

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  Review by M_Penalosa ★★★★★ 2

  I just introduced Godard to my 16-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter at the same time. Greatest kids film ever.

  Son: "She sure is stupid."
  Daughter: "She's beautiful so it doesn't matter."

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  Review by Joe ★★★★★ 201

  Shockingly playful, given how famously grouchy Godard became later (did somebody dump him or something?). Anna Karina is the clear star but I also love how Jean-Paul Belmondo seems so different from his usual screen persona - not particularly cool, more of a dork. A trifle, maybe, unless you don't consider movies to be trifling.

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  Review by iana ★★★★½ 7

  wish i didn’t like godard as much as i do lol

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  Review by laird ★★★★½ 1

  Anna Karina takes off and Belmondo turns to tell the audience, "There she goes."

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  Review by laura ★★★★

  having a silent argument using book titles is something that can actually be so personal

  also.. jean-paul belmondo in a turtleneck.. yeah

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  Review by eely ★★★★★ 1

  “you don’t mind undressing for men?”
  “no, I despise humanity.”
  “so do I!”

  things me and angela have in common: 

  • both virgos who over-analyze everything
  • can never decide if she wants to wear her hair up or down - she goes from having it full down, to an updo, and then back to having it full down, to having it half-up half-down all in the same scene and oh my god ME!! also, bangs!
  • winged eyeliner 
  • argues with significant other until she either wins or he angrily leaves the apartment and then she whispers that she loves him through the door 
  • sad about everything for no reason 
  • performs dramatic monologues from plays alone in her apartment 
  • “looks at camera like i’m on the office” meme
  • wishes her life was a gene kelly musical

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  Review by Deckk ★★★★ 2

  French stripper Angela wants a baby, and she wants one now, but her boyfriend Émile is less enthusiastic. When he suggests his best friend can impregnate her, Angela takes the proposal more serious than Émile had hoped.

  In 1961 two of France's most renowned directors both sought to invent the musical that isn't a musical, and although I got a kick out of Jacques Demy's Lola, I gotta hand the victory to Jean-Luc Godard's A Woman Is a Woman. Dynamically tempoed with funky staccato momentum, and tirelessly energetic, it feels indeed as if at any moment a song-and-dance sequence could launch — Godard bamboozles the viewer with the marvellous-as-always Anna Karina giving impulse to a musical number, only for it to…

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  Review by 💋🎄 Andi 🎄💋 ★★★★½ 10

  The Criterion Challenge 2021
  Week #2: Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

  Wow, this was just me sighing for 83 minutes over the aesthetic, the colors, and honestly I’d love to say Jean-Paul Belmondo, but my eyes were on Anna Karina the whole time. 😍❤️
      A Woman is a Woman is a barrage full of whimsy, music, and bright bold colors, yet underneath all the playful fourth wall breaking and giddy production design, there is a feeling of loneliness in the way that Angela longs for a baby in order to salvage her relationship with Emile. I am in love with how Godard presents his mise-en-scène despite how others may think that it’s a distraction from the film’s central themes.…

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  Review by Paul Hibbard ★★★★

  Godard called this is his first real film, an apparent swipe at Breathless, the movie that kickstarted his career and remains the only film that casual fans know. Though I wonder if he actually believes A Woman is a Woman is really better than Breathless (I don't), or if he just happens to have that stubbornly defiant personality that makes him disgusted at his own films that are overly-renowned.

  Though that said, A Woman is a Woman does become his early film that goes on to set a mood for his others. The white and blues of the walls, set design and costuming all blending together in a frame so perfect you could hang it on the wall over Wes…

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  Review by Christina ★★★★ 2

  I only watch Godard films for Anna Karina at this point

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  Review by Peter Labuza ★★★½ 2

  For twenty or thirty minutes there, I thought this was going to be my favorite Godard. It’s certainly the first of his first three features (Le Petit Soldat shot before; released after) that announces what would become his very 60s trademark style. While Breathless is all about breaking from what had become the French tradition of cinema, Woman is a Woman is instead Godard embracing what he loves about cinema: its blending of artifice and reality. Begins as his most Tashlinesque film – at times could resembling a Looney Tunes cartoon in its surrealism (Karina walks through the magic door and fits into a perfectly suited outfit!). Much of Godard’s choices are more or less show-of-ish: removing sound at odd…