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7.6/10   3,425 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Jean-Luc Godard (screenplay)
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Release Date:
6 September 1961 (France) more
Plot:
Angela,a striptease artist, wants to have a baby and tries to persuade her boyfriend Emile to go along with the idea... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
"Vivra sa vie": Shouldn't Love Be the Only Truth?
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Godard knows what cinema is and this is cinema. more (24 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)
Jean-Claude Brialy ... Émile Récamier (as Brialy)
Anna Karina ... Angela (as Karina)
Jean-Paul Belmondo ... Alfred Lubitsch (as Belmondo)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Henri Attal ... Faux aveugle #2 (uncredited)
Karyn Balm ... (uncredited)
Dorothée Blank ... Prostitute 3 (uncredited)
Catherine Demongeot ... Zazie (uncredited)
Marie Dubois ... Angela's friend (uncredited)
Ernest Menzer ... Bar Owner (uncredited)
Jeanne Moreau ... Woman in Bar (uncredited)
Nicole Paquin ... Suzanne (uncredited)
Gisèle Sandré ... Prostitute 2 (uncredited)
Marion Sarraut ... Prostitute 1 (uncredited)
Dominique Zardi ... Faux aveugle #1 (uncredited)
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Directed by
Jean-Luc Godard 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Jean-Luc Godard  screenplay

Produced by
Georges de Beauregard .... producer
Carlo Ponti .... producer
 
Original Music by
Michel Legrand 
 
Cinematography by
Raoul Coutard 
 
Film Editing by
Agnès Guillemot 
Lila Herman 
 
Production Design by
Bernard Evein 
 
Costume Design by
Jacqueline Moreau (uncredited)
 
Production Management
Philippe Dussart .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Francis Cognany .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Guy Villette .... sound
 
Other crew
Suzanne Schiffman .... script girl
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Woman Is a Woman (USA)
La donna è donna (Italy)
Uma Mulher É Uma Mulher (Brazil) (Portugal) [pt]
Una mujer es una mujer (Argentina) (Spain) [es]
Eine Frau ist eine Frau (West Germany) [de]
En kvinde er en kvinde (Denmark) [da]
I kyria thelei erota (Greece) [el]
Nainen on aina nainen (Finland) [fi]
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Runtime:
Argentina:85 min | USA:84 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Jean-Luc Godard's first film in color. more
Quotes:
Angela: We should boycott women who don't cry. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Punch-Drunk Love (2002) more
Soundtrack:
Chanson d'Angela more

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17 out of 22 people found the following review useful.
Godard knows what cinema is and this is cinema., 14 December 2002
10/10
Author: anirak_anna from United States

This movie is often advertised as a musical. It's not. It's Jean-Luc Godard's world, filled with vibrant blues and reds, bogaurd cigarettes, and cinema fantasies, shown through the eyes of Anna Karina. Karina plays a stripper, but unlike the other girls, she dances and sings as if she were in a musical choreographed by Bob Fosse. Raoul Cotard's cinerama camera follows her through Paris as we expiriance her flirtation's with her lover's best friend (played by Jean Paul Belamondo who also costars with Karina in 'Pierette le Fou' and starred in Godard's first film, A bout de scoffule) and argues with her lover about whether they should have a child and how awful the opposite sex is. They love eachother deeply, but can't stand eachother. In my experiance this IS love...or the closest thing humans can get to love. Godard keeps us completley out of the film by constantly reminding us that THIS IS A FILM. Anna Karina winks at the camera, breaks into song, the actors are staged unrealistically. This is what makes Jean-Luc Godard great. No matter how hard he tried to obtain realism in his first film, it was still a film and this is one of Godard's subliminal messages to the audience. Fun, charming, cinematic, and beautiful--a woman is a woman is a fine piece of cinema.

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