Now proceeding to Jean-Luc Godard's third film, Une femme est une femme / A Woman Is a Woman (1961), truly a "riot" of color after the first two in black and white. Am I really going to sit through the whole thing again? -- my first thoughts -- gave way, about half an hour in, to a better response: this is dazzling and cool at the same time. Yes, Godard is full of tricks, but he relentlessly pulls them off -- again and again.
Besides the main drive of the story, involving Angela (Anna Karina), Émile (Jean-Claude Brialy) and Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo), and whether they can be happy, the joys of this film are many, including several Parisian interiors and exteriors, glimpses of daily life, and period detail (a kitchen calendar marks the date as November 10-11, 1961).
This would go well paired with Jacques Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), with Catherine Deneuve as Geneviève and Nino Castelnuovo as Guy, a more formal but also dazzling film.
Today's Rune: Partnership.
2 comments:
I don't think I've seen this one. Or if I have, it's gone.
Ack! The chickadee has such a pretty voice! I just wish I knew french. :p *le sigh*
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