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...WOMAN IS A WOMAN. France's Jean-Luc Godard glorifies the offbeat amours of a Parisian stripteaser (Anna Karina) with some gay, giddy improvisations inspired by New Wave esprit and a handful of old Hollywood musicals...
Loosely shaped like a musical sans songs, and almost sans plot, the film plunges headlong into the life and loves of Angela (Anna Karina), a Parisian stripteaser who shares her room at the top with a bicycle racer (Jean-Claude Brialy). Their relationship has obviously been built on the flimsiest of foundations-too many Hollywood double features. One day Angela announces: "I think I'm alive." Suddenly she wants to have a baby, but the bicycle rider does not share her idée fixe...
...movies by Director Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless), whose joy in his work has never been more apparent. In this fresh and giddy free-form improvisation, Godard weaves all the bright idiocy of a Hollywood musical into some very je m'en fiche French rounds involving an ecdysiast (Anna Karina) who sheds her last flimsy inhibition and decides to have a baby with her lover, or-if it happens to work out that way-with her lover's best friend (Jean-Paul Belmondo...
...life to Live comes as close to translating the French titleSa Vie Vivre as it does to presenting a convincing character--not quite close enough. Director Jean-Luc Godord (Breathless) casts his wife, Anna Karina, in a difficult rile. She must persuade us that although she leaves her husband and child to become a prostitute, she is irreproachable. No matter what she does, the movie implies that, like Suzie Wong and Irma La Douce she remains somehow pure...
...LIFE TO LIVE. French Director Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) turns a camera full of love and artistry upon his wife (Anna Karina), who, in a dozen impeccably filmed episodes, depicts the oddly satisfying salvation of a woman who leaves home and hearth for harlotry...