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A Woman Is a Woman and the Legend of Anna Karina
Jean-Luc Godard’s second released feature — a magnificent and bizarre “neorealist musical” — is back in theaters in a 4K restoration.
A young woman, Angela (played by Godard’s muse and future wife Anna Karina), wants to have a baby, but her distant boyfriend, Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy), doesn’t want to impregnate her because he has a bicycle race that weekend, so his best friend, Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo), who also pines for her, steps in. Breathless had started as a somewhat conventional project that Godard turned into an irreverent formal free-for-all; the noirish, plaintive Le petit soldat had enough genre elements to mistake it for something more traditional. Angela works at a strip club where women’s clothes come off not through dances but via jump cuts; their faces are expressionless and their bodies immobile, as if they’ve been reduced to deadpan pin-up poses.
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