list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around A Woman Is a Woman on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/A_Woman_Is_a_Woman/38748/default.aspx Title: A Woman Is a Woman
Year: 1961
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Plot: Director Jean-Luc Godard's deceptively blithe tribute to the musical comedy features Anna Karina as an exotic dancer who decides that it is time for her to have a child. When her lover refuses to commit to the decision, she turns her romantic attentions to his best friend. This being a Godard film, the straightforward story serves as a framework for improvisation and stylistic experimentation, allowing for odd interludes and unexpected images. Rather than the sometimes alienating, dense intellectualism of later Godard works, Une femme est une femme offers aesthetic pleasure through luxurious visuals and a charming musical score by Michel Legrand. Against this bright backdrop, Karina proves particularly fetching, capturing the film's frolicsome mood in an unforced manner. While not one of Godard's most groundbreaking or influential films, Une femme est une femme is one of his most appealing and pleasurable efforts. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide
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]]>Sun, 17 May 2009 23:21:29 GMTA Woman Is a Woman1961Jean-Luc GodardDirector <a href="/players/P____91804/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jean-Luc Godard</a>'s deceptively blithe tribute to the musical comedy features <a href="/players/P____96782/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Anna Karina</a> as an exotic dancer who decides that it is time for her to have a child. When her lover refuses to commit to the decision, she turns her romantic attentions to his best friend. This being a Godard film, the straightforward story serves as a framework for improvisation and stylistic experimentation, allowing for odd interludes and unexpected images. Rather than the sometimes alienating, dense intellectualism of later Godard works, Une femme est une femme offers aesthetic pleasure through luxurious visuals and a charming musical score by <a href="/players/P____99035/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Michel Legrand</a>. Against this bright backdrop, Karina proves particularly fetching, capturing the film's frolicsome mood in an unforced manner. While not one of Godard's most groundbreaking or influential films, Une femme est une femme is one of his most appealing and pleasurable efforts. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide6Taggedy Taggged (6-10)753http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t43683smxhf.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/A_Woman_Is_a_Woman/38748/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/tmclancy/archive/2009/5/17/42300.aspx Post By: tmclancy
Post To: le cinéphile sporadique
Post Date: 5/17/2009 7:21:29 PM
Body: An absolutely brilliant satire of the American musical, carrying on Godard's avant-garde sound techniques and cinema verite style (complete with some incredible tracking shots) as well as his heavily utilized theme (in his earlier works especially) of the male-female societal relationship in France contrasted with that relationship in the US. Possibly the most accessible Godard film I have seen yet, I would recommend this to anybody as a place to start delving into Godard's work.
]]>Sun, 17 May 2009 23:21:29 GMTtmclancyle cinéphile sporadique5/17/2009 7:21:29 PMAn absolutely brilliant satire of the American musical, carrying on Godard's avant-garde sound techniques and cinema verite style (complete with some incredible tracking shots) as well as his heavily utilized theme (in his earlier works especially) of the male-female societal relationship in France contrasted with that relationship in the US. Possibly the most accessible Godard film I have seen yet, I would recommend this to anybody as a place to start delving into Godard's work. http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/11/7/37063.aspx Post By: Karina
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Post Date: 11/7/2008 2:01:06 PM
Body: A number of our blogging friends have picked up the Alphabetical Favorites meme. The idea is that you list 26 favorite movies, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some people are adding comments, but I think it’s more interesting to just toss the titles out there, to see how they fit together within a single list and how they match up to other lists. Also, it’s been a hell of a week and I’m exhausted. I will say this: after not being able to think of a single movie beginning with the letter “J” that I enjoy more than Joe Versus the Volcano, I noticed that several commenters at the House Next Door had slotted the same film in the same face. So much for Todd McCarthy’s contention in his Doubt review that John Patrick Shanley’s first directorial effort was “misguided.” So! My list is after the jump. Ali: Fear Eats The Soul Barry Lyndon Charade Deconstructing Harry Eyes Wide Shut Forty Second Street Ghostbusters Happy Together I Walked With a Zombie Joe vs. the Volcano Killers, The (1946) Long Goodbye, The Morocco North By Northwest On The Town Purple Rain Querelle Rules of the Game, The Star is Born, A (1954) They All Laughed Une Femme est une Femme Vivre Sa Vie When A Woman Ascends the Stairs Xanadu Yolanda and the Thief Zabriskie Point Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth
]]>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:01:06 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog11/7/2008 2:01:06 PMA number of our blogging friends have picked up the Alphabetical Favorites meme. The idea is that you list 26 favorite movies, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some people are adding comments, but I think it’s more interesting to just toss the titles out there, to see how they fit together within a single list and how they match up to other lists. Also, it’s been a hell of a week and I’m exhausted. I will say this: after not being able to think of a single movie beginning with the letter “J” that I enjoy more than Joe Versus the Volcano, I noticed that several commenters at the House Next Door had slotted the same film in the same face. So much for Todd McCarthy’s contention in his Doubt review that John Patrick Shanley’s first directorial effort was “misguided.” So! My list is after the jump. Ali: Fear Eats The Soul Barry Lyndon Charade Deconstructing Harry Eyes Wide Shut Forty Second Street Ghostbusters Happy Together I Walked With a Zombie Joe vs. the Volcano Killers, The (1946) Long Goodbye, The Morocco North By Northwest On The Town Purple Rain Querelle Rules of the Game, The Star is Born, A (1954) They All Laughed Une Femme est une Femme Vivre Sa Vie When A Woman Ascends the Stairs Xanadu Yolanda and the Thief Zabriskie Point Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/11/7/37062.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 11/7/2008 2:00:55 PM
Body: A number of our blogging friends have picked up the Alphabetical Favorites meme. The idea is that you list 26 favorite movies, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some people are adding comments, but I think it’s more interesting to just toss the titles out there, to see how they fit together within a single list and how they match up to other lists. Also, it’s been a hell of a week and I’m exhausted. I will say this: after not being able to think of a single movie beginning with the letter “J” that I enjoy more than Joe Versus the Volcano, I noticed that several commenters at the House Next Door had slotted the same film in the same face. So much for Todd McCarthy’s contention in his Doubt review that John Patrick Shanley’s first directorial effort was “misguided.” So! My list is after the jump. Ali: Fear Eats The Soul Barry Lyndon Charade Deconstructing Harry Eyes Wide Shut Forty Second Street Ghostbusters Happy Together I Walked With a Zombie Joe vs. the Volcano Killers, The (1946) Long Goodbye, The Morocco North By Northwest On The Town Purple Rain Querelle Rules of the Game, The Star is Born, A (1954) They All Laughed Une Femme est une Femme Vivre Sa Vie When A Woman Ascends the Stairs Xanadu Yolanda and the Thief Zabriskie Point Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:00:55 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com11/7/2008 2:00:55 PMA number of our blogging friends have picked up the Alphabetical Favorites meme. The idea is that you list 26 favorite movies, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some people are adding comments, but I think it’s more interesting to just toss the titles out there, to see how they fit together within a single list and how they match up to other lists. Also, it’s been a hell of a week and I’m exhausted. I will say this: after not being able to think of a single movie beginning with the letter “J” that I enjoy more than Joe Versus the Volcano, I noticed that several commenters at the House Next Door had slotted the same film in the same face. So much for Todd McCarthy’s contention in his Doubt review that John Patrick Shanley’s first directorial effort was “misguided.” So! My list is after the jump. Ali: Fear Eats The Soul Barry Lyndon Charade Deconstructing Harry Eyes Wide Shut Forty Second Street Ghostbusters Happy Together I Walked With a Zombie Joe vs. the Volcano Killers, The (1946) Long Goodbye, The Morocco North By Northwest On The Town Purple Rain Querelle Rules of the Game, The Star is Born, A (1954) They All Laughed Une Femme est une Femme Vivre Sa Vie When A Woman Ascends the Stairs Xanadu Yolanda and the Thief Zabriskie Point Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/cinemarian/archive/2008/5/14/29103.aspx Post By: CinemaRian
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Post Date: 5/14/2008 1:00:05 AM
Body: This movie is so happy! It's the ultimate date movie, has a virusoso cinematic technique and is as cute as my little puppy. Aww.... The movie stars the adorable (Edwin's words were never more true) Anna Karina as Angela, a burlesque dancer who wants to have a baby. She cohabits with Emile (Jean-Claude Braily), who doesn't. She's also best friends with Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo, the cool guy from Breathless) and thinks that perhaps he might be able to get the job done. There's not much more to the story than that, but you didn't think this was going to be about story anyway, did you? It's all about atmosphere, and style, and the cute things that Anna Karina says and does. The movie is often said to be a musical. That only half true- music does play a huge role in this movie, but most of it is in recitives and is talked instead of sung, a la Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady. There is only one real song, which Karina performs at her semi-seedy club. Goddard plays with the element of sound in the film- music begins and stops abruptly, sometimes being louder than the dialouge. Sometimes he chooses to cut out the music and sound effects, and some shots have no sound at all. We never forget that we are watching a movie, but somehow this just makes it easier to be emersed in the world of the film. There are few experiences betters than watching a film by a director who clearly loves the medium. Every element works- the acting (particularly by Karina and Belmondo), the sound, the widescreen photography, the cutting and the truly funny humor. A Woman is a Woman is sweet, in both senses of the word. A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
]]>Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:05 GMTCinemaRianCinemaRian Blog5/14/2008 1:00:05 AMThis movie is so happy! It's the ultimate date movie, has a virusoso cinematic technique and is as cute as my little puppy. Aww.... The movie stars the adorable (Edwin's words were never more true) Anna Karina as Angela, a burlesque dancer who wants to have a baby. She cohabits with Emile (Jean-Claude Braily), who doesn't. She's also best friends with Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo, the cool guy from Breathless) and thinks that perhaps he might be able to get the job done. There's not much more to the story than that, but you didn't think this was going to be about story anyway, did you? It's all about atmosphere, and style, and the cute things that Anna Karina says and does. The movie is often said to be a musical. That only half true- music does play a huge role in this movie, but most of it is in recitives and is talked instead of sung, a la Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady. There is only one real song, which Karina performs at her semi-seedy club. Goddard plays with the element of sound in the film- music begins and stops abruptly, sometimes being louder than the dialouge. Sometimes he chooses to cut out the music and sound effects, and some shots have no sound at all. We never forget that we are watching a movie, but somehow this just makes it easier to be emersed in the world of the film. There are few experiences betters than watching a film by a director who clearly loves the medium. Every element works- the acting (particularly by Karina and Belmondo), the sound, the widescreen photography, the cutting and the truly funny humor. A Woman is a Woman is sweet, in both senses of the word. A Woman Is a Woman (1961) http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2007/7/6/13259.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 7/6/2007 12:00:38 PM
Body: Posting will be light here this afternoon--it's a slooooooow post-holiday news day, and I'm planning to spend the better part of the afternoon at Film Forum swooning over Jean-Paul Belmondo in a new print of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Doulos. To get into the mood, I went to YouTube and searched for "Belmondo." I found this trailer for A Woman is A Woman, Jean-Luc Godard's 1961 "musical" starring Belmondo, Anna Karina, and Jean-Claude Brialy. In it, Godard explains (via wall-to-wall voice over) his Renoir-inspired approach to on-the-set improvisation. It's semi-NSFW, but considering it's a beautiful summer Friday afternoon, you're probably not at work, anyway. Technorati Profile Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:00:38 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com7/6/2007 12:00:38 PM Posting will be light here this afternoon--it's a slooooooow post-holiday news day, and I'm planning to spend the better part of the afternoon at Film Forum swooning over Jean-Paul Belmondo in a new print of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Doulos. To get into the mood, I went to YouTube and searched for "Belmondo." I found this trailer for A Woman is A Woman, Jean-Luc Godard's 1961 "musical" starring Belmondo, Anna Karina, and Jean-Claude Brialy. In it, Godard explains (via wall-to-wall voice over) his Renoir-inspired approach to on-the-set improvisation. It's semi-NSFW, but considering it's a beautiful summer Friday afternoon, you're probably not at work, anyway. Technorati Profile Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/french/MemberTagFilms.aspxfrench
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