I love this movie so much

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

A WOMAN IS A WOMAN is a comedy drama. That is a visual magic, which is colored with a crazy romance, incomprehensible feelings and a pleasant music.The main protagonists are exotic dancer Angéla and her lover Émile. The story is mainly based on their crazy relationship. She wants to have a child, but he isn't ready. Émile's best friend Alfred also says he loves Angéla and he is waiting for his chance. Since Émile stubbornly refuses her request for a child, Angéla finally decides to accept Alfred's plea and sleeps with him...This is another experiment directed by Mr. Godard. An intimate pleasure and a girlish caprice have agitated frisky youthful spirits. An explosion of colors and sounds is in contrast to the poverty and penury in this film. The story has some elements of a musical comedy, but it basically boils down to a drunken farce. A dance, songs, inappropriate jokes, a bit of nudity and sexual charge reflect the youthful freedom to somewhat ironic way.Anna Karina as Angela Récamier is a lively and playful girl, who can not control her emotions and her growing desire for a child. She is an ordinary girl who behaves like a star, and finally becomes just a woman.Jean-Claude Brialy as Émile, her lover, is a quite crazed, perhaps on a verge of despair. A very serious life decision for a young man, has eventually become a part of the general burlesque. Jean-Paul Belmondo as Alfred Lubitsch is a lover from a shadow, who is trying to prove his love for Angela. His methods are quite interesting. What can I say ... it is Belmondo.This is a frivolous joke, which in the background provokes serious topics.

Godard succeeded in making a film that is both pretentious and pathetic. It's almost a parody of itself. Full of cutesy absurd songs and dances, I was glad that I could see this on DVD and fast forward through the worst of it. I cannot think of anything that redeemed this film. The woman is an airhead who just wants to have a baby. As a striptease dancer, she seemed to have no knowledge of the responsibilities of motherhood and no awareness that motherhood would change her life. This is the kind of woman who thinks she's an adult just because she can have a child. She is a baby herself and likely to be a terrible mother. The men in the film are all idiots as well. The best thing I can say about this film is that perhaps Godard is trying to show the worst of humanity in hopes that pretentious people will recognize themselves and wise up. But I doubt that was his intention. The film seems to take itself seriously as an alternative avant-garde creation. I have enjoyed Godard films such as Alphaville, Breathless, Contempt, and Weekend. But this one was lousy...

This is my second Godard film, my first being "Breathless", and I must say I enjoyed this one much more simply for the film's vibrant use of color. As Godard's first color film, he didn't waste the opportunity to experiment with them, and used his color schemes to their fullest potentials. The costumes, lighting, and sets all explode from the screen in bright oranges, reds, purples, and blues; a very kaleidoscopic experience. I can only assume at this point that Godard is not one for traditional story structure and plot development. The film, using distinct French New Wave editing and sound mixing, kind of "dances" and "skips" around scenes and dialogue, making the film more about the pure experience of cinema than delving into some kind of serious story or character arch. Some might see it as immature or pretentious, and it may very well be that, but it's so much fun to watch and so exciting for an aspiring filmmaker such as myself to see cinema at its perhaps most artistically indulgent.

Only a few played with film the way Godard did. "A Woman Is a Woman", his first film in color, is a "musical-comedy" about Angela (the beautiful, underrated Anna Karina, Godard's then wife/muse, in perhaps her most iconic role), an exotic dancer who wants to have a baby. As her boyfriend, Émile Récamier (the late Jean-Claude Brialy) doesn't like the idea, she goes after his friend Alfred Lubitsch (Jean-Paul Belmondo). However, Angela's desire is just a pretext for Godard to explore his visual, intellectual, musical and, of course, cinematic games (in one scene, Belmondo meets Jeanne Moreau at a café and asks "How's 'Jules & Jim" coming along?") with this adorably inventive, amusing and sexy ride. One of his most accessible films, "A Woman Is a Woman" is a good example of why Godard was such a revolutionary, and a great introduction to his filmography. Oh, and to hear Karina singing "Chanson d'Angela" and Charles Aznavour's "Tu t'laisses Aller" is a slice of movie heaven. 10/10.