2/2/2023

A Woman is A Woman

Presented in 35mm

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Dancer Angela (Anna Karina) wants to have a child, but finds her boyfriend (Jean-Claude Brialy) is an unwilling participant. She decides to ask his friend (Jean-Paul Belmondo) instead. Jean-Luc Godard’s outlandish take on musical comedies would, in lesser hands, be a schmaltzy flop. Yet once again the French New Wave provocateur combines his scathing wit with a genuine reverence for all things cinema. (Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1961, 84 min.)  In French with English subtitles