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An exotic dancer is desperate to become a mother and accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated by his best friend.An exotic dancer is desperate to become a mother and accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated by his best friend.An exotic dancer is desperate to become a mother and accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated by his best friend.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
Anna Karina
- Angela
- (as Karina)
Jean-Claude Brialy
- Émile Récamier
- (as Brialy)
Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Alfred Lubitsch
- (as Belmondo)
Henri Attal
- Faux Aveugle #2
- (uncredited)
Dorothée Blanck
- Prostitute 3
- (uncredited)
Catherine Demongeot
- Magazine Girl
- (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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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJean-Luc Godard's first film in color.
- GoofsWhen Angela first meets Alfred on the street, the red and blue armband he wears changes from his right to his left arm between the start and end of the scene
- Quotes
Alfred Lubitsch: Answer yes, and I owe you 100 francs. Answer no, and you owe me 100, okay?
Bar Owner: Okay.
Alfred Lubitsch: Here's the question: Can you loan me 100 francs?
- ConnectionsEdited into Bande-annonce de 'Une femme est une femme' (1961)
Featured review
Une femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961) conjures that feeling of acute frustration unique to the work of Jean-Luc Godard: as soon as it achieves some kind of clarity or emotional attractiveness it goes off somewhere else. But if that new diversion isn't working, don't worry - there'll be another one along in a minute. Anna Karina is good as the playful, big-eyed protagonist, who loves her boyfriend (Jean-Claude Brialy) but wants a baby so much she might just have one with her ex (Jean-Paul Belmondo, in another winning performance). The film is brightly-coloured, imaginative and littered with movie in-jokes, containing references to the movies of Godard and his Nouvelle Vague contemporary Francois Truffaut and nods to old Hollywood musicals (Gene Kelly and Bob Fosse are namechecked, Belmondo's surname is Lubitsch). And every so often everything clicks into place: like the terrific snippet in which Belmondo is accused of dodging the rent, the barrage of peculiar noises preceding his anticipated bathroom tryst with Karina or the series of visual gags based on manipulated book titles. But the movie frequently unravels, with long stretches that offer nothing but vivid direction and a feeling that Godard should really watch some of those musical comedies he claims to be homaging. The film's incoherence is mistaken by some critics for freewheeling brilliance, which is a pretty stupid mistake to make.
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- Also known as
- Eine Frau ist eine Frau
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- Budget
- $160,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $100,665
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $13,213
- May 18, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $101,747
- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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