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April 11, 2005
A Woman is a Woman
A Woman is a Woman (1961), Jean-Luc Godard:
Godard still fills the screen with whimsy, making a play on the musical--one devoid of song and dance in the traditional form. Anna Karina glows, and the movie's radiant vitality makes this notable, though it's decidedly not as sound as the other two I've seen, Band of Outsiders and Masculine Feminine.
The Criterion DVD comes with a great short, Charlotte and Veronique, or All the Boys are Called Patrick, written by Eric Rohmer. It's very funny and fits Godard like a glove. I haven't seen any Rohmer, so I can't tell who really did what, but I think I read somewhere (the liner notes?) that Godard handwrote the credits, so he has very nice penmanship.
10/15
Posted by bing at April 11, 2005 11:41 AM