A Woman Is a Woman Page #4

Synopsis: Angela,a striptease artist, wants to have a baby and tries to persuade her boyfriend Emile to go along with the idea. Emile will have none of it so she goes after Emile's friend Alfred.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Jean-Luc Godard
Production: Rialto Pictures
  2 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
NOT RATED
Year:
1961
84 min
Website
1,708 Views


Try to put a smile on your face

I'd never hate you if I tried

I only want you by my side

So try and be the girl I knew

Let's really start our love anew

I want to hold you in my arms

And then surrender to your charms

So try and set my heart aglow

Come close to me

And let yourself go

Who's the girI?

Isn't it obvious?

It's obvious.

You haven't answered my question.

What question?

What can I do to prove I love you?

Yes, what could you do?

If I ran my head into a wall,

would you believe me?

I wonder if I should say "of course"

or "maybe. "

I'll do it.

I believe you.

Sh*t. Three francs.

I don't have enough.

I don't have any money.

I've got an idea.

Let me ask you a question.

Answer yes or no, okay?

- Coming?

- Just a sec.

Answer yes,

and I owe you 100 francs.

Answer no,

and you owe me 100, okay?

Okay.

Here's the question:

Can you loan me 100 francs?

Then you owe me.

I'll pay you back next week.

You never wait for me.

Because I have to get lunch ready.

Lunch for Emile?

Lunch for Emile?

I'm thinking.

C'mon, Angela.

I mean, c'mon, really...

If in five minutes

the awning's still down,

it means I'll be back down.

And if it's up?

It means I won't be back...

that I've made up with Emile...

and that I'm happy.

I want to be alone.

Must I say it in Chinese?

- And this photo?

- That's ancient history.

You could say "kiss me"

if you want to be forgiven.

Kiss me.

- I want a baby.

- Don't start that again.

I'm not starting. I'm continuing.

Don't continue.

I'm not. I'm starting again.

Stupid b*tch!

I want a baby.

Don't be crude, Angela.

Don't be mean, Emile.

That plaid skirt doesn't suit you.

Good.

I don't want to look nice for anyone.

I want a baby.

Stop being an idiot.

I'm going to the Zodiac.

Sure, go undress in public.

You make me sick.

You jerk.

We can't live on your 250 francs.

You're a coward.

- It beats being stupid.

Why is it stupid to want a baby?

Stop or I'II leave.

Where would you go?

I don't know... Mexico.

- You're nuts.

- No, you are.

I want a baby.

Excuse me.

Would you sleep with this lady

to get her pregnant?

This is hardly the moment.

I have a busy day.

Is Angela here?

She goes on after Dominique.

- What're you drinking?

- Is Angela on next?

- Why not?

- She left.

- Old fart!

- Same to you.

IS:

SO UNHAPPY:

THAT HE DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN

So it's without meaning to...

that people act unfairly,

and they're unfair and mean.

Without meaning to...

or so

it seems to me.

And they're unfair and mean.

I need the phone.

Bye, angeI.

This is Emile Recamier.

Is Alfred Lubitsch home?

Tell him I'm going to Mexico.

Why Mexico?

It's not fair.

It's always when we're together

that we're not together.

And vice versa.

Meaning what?

Meaning I'm going to Mexico.

I'm not a girl who behaves

I really can be very cruel

But men never rant and rave

Because I am

Beauti...

ful

I don't know what to tell you.

Tell me the truth.

I was at Alfred's.

I slept with him.

I don't believe you.

It's true.

But why, for chrissake?

To have a baby.

You wouldn't do it.

You're pulling my leg.

Maybe I am.

I don't know if this is a comedy

or a tragedy,

but it's a masterpiece.

He played that Aznavour song.

You know, the one

that always gets to me.

It begins...

No, it's...

No, it's...

No, it's...

Please, Emile.

I'm turning in.

Lights out?

Lights out.

It's sad.

Yes, it's sad.

I'm sorry, honey.

I'm not speaking to you.

Read it, moron.

Even if you don't love me,

I love you.

And if you're pregnant?

It'd be terrible.

I just had an idea.

So did I.

It's quite simple.

- We won't know for a few...

- days if you're...

pregnant.

- To make sure...

- you get me pregnant so...

- I'd be sure...

- of being...

the father.

Here we go.

ONCE:

THE DEED WAS DONE,

ANGELA TURNED ON THE LIGH

Phew.

We had a close call.

What's so funny?

Angela...

damn you.

- Me?

Not damn me.

But a dame, me.

THE END:

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (French: [ʒɑ̃lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement.Like his New Wave contemporaries, Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality", which "emphasized craft over innovation, privileged established directors over new directors, and preferred the great works of the past to experimentation." As a result of such argument, he and like-minded critics started to make their own films. Many of Godard's films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. In 1964, Godard described his and his colleagues' impact: "We barged into the cinema like cavemen into the Versailles of Louis XV." He is often considered the most radical French filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s; his approach in film conventions, politics and philosophies made him arguably the most influential director of the French New Wave. Along with showing knowledge of film history through homages and references, several of his films expressed his political views; he was an avid reader of existential and Marxist philosophy. Since the New Wave, his politics have been much less radical and his recent films are about representation and human conflict from a humanist, and a Marxist perspective.In a 2002 Sight & Sound poll, Godard ranked third in the critics' top-ten directors of all time (which was put together by assembling the directors of the individual films for which the critics voted). He is said to have "created one of the largest bodies of critical analysis of any filmmaker since the mid-twentieth century." He and his work have been central to narrative theory and have "challenged both commercial narrative cinema norms and film criticism's vocabulary." In 2010, Godard was awarded an Academy Honorary Award, but did not attend the award ceremony. Godard's films have inspired many directors including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, Steven Soderbergh, D. A. Pennebaker, Robert Altman, Jim Jarmusch, Wong Kar-wai, Wim Wenders, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.From his father, he is the cousin of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, former President of Peru. He has been married twice, to actresses Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky, both of whom starred in several of his films. His collaborations with Karina—which included such critically acclaimed films as Bande à part (1964) and Pierrot le Fou (1965)—was called "arguably the most influential body of work in the history of cinema" by Filmmaker magazine. more…

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