A Woman is a Woman

When Angela (Anna Karina) wants to have a baby, but finds her boyfriend Émile (Jean-Claude Brialy) an unwilling participant, she goes to his friend Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo), proving the lengths to which she'll go to realize her dream. Festooned with enough eccentric musical moments to satisfy the most avant of gardists, including a Charles Aznavour song almost arbitrarily rocketing on and off the soundtrack and Michel Legrand's pre-Umbrellas of Cherbourg score thundering into split-second breaks in dialogue, plus cinematic in-jokes galore and plenty of anarchic humor, A Woman Is a Woman is a cinephile's dream film. The most colorful and purely entertaining film of the French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard’s legendary career, the film won a jury prize from the Berlin Film Festival for its "originality, youth, audacity and impertinence," and the enchanting Karina in her first major role was named Best Actress.