I have watched 9 Godards before, but most of them are hypnotic works that are suitable for watching insomnia. At the same time, they are also movies that I have not watched. So I never expected that "A Woman Is a Woman" would be such a relaxing, funny and lovely movie.
Instead of saying that a woman is a woman, it is better to say that a woman is Anna Karina. After looking down from the beginning to the end, the first thing I felt was Godard's deep love for Anna Karina. An eccentric character like Angela was simply tailored by Godard for Karina. It turned out to be online, and as expected, Anna Karina married Godard during the filming of "A Woman Is a Woman". So Godard is not only a master of movies, but also a master of love. After seeing an advertisement starring Anna Karina at first, I caught a glance at this little Danish model who is still not well-known. From his feature film debut-"Exhausted", Anna Karina was invited to play the leading role (rejected by Karina), but it was nothing to be discouraged to be rejected, and then another one was planned. It is more suitable for Anna Karina's film and invites again. I can't help but think of the two films "The Fiancee on the McDonald's Bridge" and "As You Like It", all revealing Godard's affectionate love for Karina. Even after their seven-year marriage, they still maintained a cooperative relationship, which can be said to be a new wave of love~
The New Wave of French Films is to some extent an innovation to traditional movies, and as Godard’s second feature film and also his first color film, "Woman is a Woman" is based on film techniques. Many innovative explorations. The most obvious is the jump cut that is also used repeatedly in "Exhaustion". When connecting two scenes about Angela, Godard put a lot of Angela with a little sad face close-up in the form of jump cuts. It appears that this is an emotional strengthening, and "Angela's heart is troubled and sad" is substituted into the next scene. The jump cuts in "Exhaustion" are sometimes confusing, and even thought to be useless and deliberate, and the use of jump cuts in "A Woman Is a Woman" can make me understand the general meaning.
There are too many directors in the shot scheduling, making innovations on the screen. It is precisely because the film screen covers more things, it is often more concerned by people, and the sound covers far less things than the screen, so it is often ignored by people. Godard is well-known and one of the few directors who has made innovations in sound. From the very beginning, "A Woman Is a Woman" has shown its uniqueness in the soundtrack of the film. The soundtrack will be interrupted abruptly as the plot of the film progresses, but the rhythm of the soundtrack and the rhythm of the plot have reached a consistent harmony. . Even when Angela and Emil had a quarrel, every ruthless word the two uttered corresponds to a unique, more like impromptu soundtrack. The soundtrack serves emotional expression, but it is different from the original soundtrack in various forms. It can be called an interesting innovation in the soundtrack of a movie.
In fact, if you think about what this movie tells and expresses, if you think about these two aspects carefully, this seems to be a boring movie that doesn't say anything profound. Godard obviously pays more attention to what kind of method is used to tell the story. The interesting way of telling the story makes this possibly meaningless story interesting. In this film, Godard broke the boundary between the audience and the film many times. The characters in the film will look directly at the camera and establish communication with the audience. In addition, Godard also added some easter eggs about the new wave of French movies: specially asked Namoro to appear in a cameo, making a joke of "Ancestors and Accounts". At the same time, I don't forget to mention Truffaut's "Shooting the Pianist". It is worthy of being one of the Three Musketeers of the French film New Wave. At that time, I saw these two men are absolutely true love! Do not forget to make a publicity for the movie of good brothers when making your own movies. But it is a pity to think that the two broke up later, and completely cut off contact.
Maybe Godard didn’t have a clear plan to tell what kind of story, maybe the whole movie just reflects the state of two people when they are in love. From this state of separation and recombination, one interesting and lovely moment. Or maybe Godard will make this movie just because it is a love letter to Anna Karina, a romantic pursuit during the New Wave period.
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