A stripper who's desperate to become a mother accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated by his best friend.
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“When it first appeared in 1961, Jean-Luc Godard's Une femme est une femme (A Woman is a Woman) generally pleased audiences and critics; it won the Jury's Special Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, where Anna Karina took the Best Actress Award for her lead role as Angela. Since then, the film has been slighted by the critics and scholars, one of whom dismissed it as "lightweight Godard" (Dixon 28). In a way, this critical neglect is understandable given the extraordinary body of provocative and intellectually challenging work Godard has created since. In terms of his use of book culture, however, Une femme est une femme anticipates much of his subsequent work and gives the film a level of sophistication generally attributed to later films.”
Kevin J. Hayes1
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Kevin J. Hayes, ‘Une Femme Est une Femme: A Modern Woman’s Bookshelf,’ Film Criticism 25, nr. 1 (2000): 65-82.
