Une Femme Est une Femme: A Modern Woman's Bookshelf.

From: Film Criticism | Date: September 22, 2000| Author: Hayes, Kevin J. | Copyright information

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 pro...

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