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06/09/1961 Comedy, Drama, Romance 1h 23m
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Is this a tragedy or a comedy? Either way, it's a masterpiece.

Overview

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

  1. Jean-Luc Godard

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Anna Karina

    Angela

  2. Jean-Claude Brialy

    Émile Récamier

  3. Jean-Paul Belmondo

    Alfred Lubitsch

  4. Henri Attal

    Fake Blind #2 (uncredited)

  5. Karyn Balm

    (uncredited)

  6. Dorothée Blanck

    Prostitute 3 / 'L'Opera Mouffe' shown on TV screen (uncredited)

  7. Catherine Demongeot

    Magazine Girl (uncredited)

  8. Marie Dubois

    Angela's Friend (uncredited)

  9. Ernest Menzer

    Bar Owner (uncredited)

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Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by CRCulver
Written by CRCulver on 2018-08-26
Jean-Luc Godard's first two films (À bout de souffle and Le petit soldat) were thrillers that drew inspiration from American noir, but Une femme est une femme (A Woman is a Woman, 1961) shifts gears drastically to a riff on American musical comedies, with the characters occasionally singing and dancing, and the camera jumping between realistic depictions and these musical interludes. But as one of the seminal figures of the French New Wave with its desire to shake up conventions, Godard added some elements of his own. As the film opens, the soundtrack keeps cutting abrupt...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$160,000.00

Revenue
$100,655.00

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