The Roxie Theater is showcasing a new restoration of the Godard’s movie A Woman is A Woman
A Woman Is a Woman (in French: Une femme est une femme) is a 1961 French experimental musical romantic comedy film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina and Jean-Claude Brialy. It is a tribute to American musical comedy and associated with the French New Wave. It is Godard’s third feature film , and his first in color and Cinemascope.
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, cinematic in-jokes galore, and plenty of anarchic humor, A Woman is a Woman is a cinephile’s dream film.
A jeu d’esprit of the New Wave that won a jury prize from the Berlin Film Festival for its “originality, youth, audacity and impertinence,” while the enchanting Karina (in her first major role) was named Best Actress.
Movie in French with English subtitles.
Date: March 15th & 16th, 2025
Address: Roxie Theater – 3117 16th Street, San Francisco
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Merci Roxie Theater!
