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* ShoutOut: Godard throws in several references to French New Wave films, including his own.

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* ShoutOut: Godard throws in several references to French New Wave UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave films, including his own.

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* CelebrityParadox: At one point, Alfred, played by Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo, tells Emile and Angela that he doesn't want to miss a TV broadcast of ''Film/{{Breathless}}'', which stars... Jean-Paul Belmondo.



** Angela and a friend have a conversation about the latter getting a job as a stripper, and they mention that the club proprietor wants girls for a show in Marseilles. Angela mentions another dancer, Lola, who set out for Marseilles but ended up in Buenos Aires, a reference to ''Film/{{Lola}}'', released earlier that year.

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** Angela and a friend have a conversation about the latter getting a job as a stripper, stripper which includes references to two then-contemporary New Wave films.
*** Angela's friend has just been to the cinema,
and they mention Angela asks her what she saw. Her friend mimes playing a piano and then firing a gun; Angela correctly identifies this as a charade for ''Film/ShootThePianoPlayer'' and enthuses over Music/CharlesAznavour's performance as Édouard/Charlie.
*** When the conversation turns to business, Angela explains
that the club proprietor wants girls for a show in Marseilles. Angela She mentions another dancer, Lola, who set out for Marseilles but ended up in Buenos Aires, a reference to ''Film/{{Lola}}'', released earlier that year.

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** {{Woolseyism}}: The Criterion Collection DVD subtitles change the translation slightly to give us this: "Angela, damn you." "No, a dame, me."

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** {{Woolseyism}}: The Criterion Collection DVD subtitles change the translation slightly to give us this: "Angela, damn you." "No, a dame, me."



* ShoutOut: When Emile and Angela first call Alfred up to their apartment, he says he doesn't want to miss ''Film/{{Breathless}}'' on TV.

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* ShoutOut: Godard throws in several references to French New Wave films, including his own.
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When Emile and Angela first call Alfred up to their apartment, he says he doesn't want to miss ''Film/{{Breathless}}'' on TV.TV. [[CelebrityParadox He must think he looks like the male lead...]]
** Angela and a friend have a conversation about the latter getting a job as a stripper, and they mention that the club proprietor wants girls for a show in Marseilles. Angela mentions another dancer, Lola, who set out for Marseilles but ended up in Buenos Aires, a reference to ''Film/{{Lola}}'', released earlier that year.
** Alfred meets an uncredited Creator/JeanneMoreau in a bar and asks her how things are going on ''Film/JulesAndJim'' (in which she played the female lead, Catherine).
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* YourCheatingHeart: Angela cheats on one of Émile with Alfred. Because she is ''une femme''. (Of course, right before that, he visits a prostitute.)

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** Angela delivers her last line "I am a woman" looking straight at the camera. Then she winks.



* TheEnd: The film ends with the camera panning up to the building across the street, where a neon sign says "FIN".



** A later Criterion edition translates Emile's last line as "You are a bad omen."



* YourCheatingHeart: Angela cheats on one of Émile with Alfred. Because she is ''une femme''.

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* YourCheatingHeart: Angela cheats on one of Émile with Alfred. Because she is ''une femme''.
femme''. (Of course, right before that, he visits a prostitute.)

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* FanserviceExtra: There are a lot of strippers at the club, including a quick shot of a lady wearing nothing but bikini briefs (even in France, this was daring for 1961).

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* FanserviceExtra: There are a lot of strippers at the club, including a quick shot of a lady wearing nothing but bikini briefs briefs, and another who gets topless in a series of {{Jump Cut}}s for Emile (even in France, this was daring for 1961).



* JumpCut: A Godard trademark. One very brief sequence has Angela leave her friend in the street, followed by a series of quick jump cuts between random locations (the street, her apartment, what appears to be a shop) before meeting Alfred in the coffee shop.

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* JumpCut: A Godard trademark. One very brief sequence has Angela leave her friend in the street, followed by a series of quick jump cuts between random locations (the street, her apartment, what appears to be a shop) before meeting Alfred in the coffee shop. Later, there are a series of jump cuts for Emile shot in a very similar manner, after Angela has left following his refusal to impregnate her.


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* RunningGag: Emile and Angela live next door to a hooker, who has a phone. They are continually using/borrowing the hooker's phone, only to have the john of the day pass by them on the way out.
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* JumpCut: A Godard trademark. One very brief sequence has Angela leave her friend in the street, followed by a series of quick jump cuts between random locations (the street, her apartment, what appears to be a shop) before meeting Alfred in the coffee shop.
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* TheCameo: Alfred is right next to Creator/JeanneMoreau in a coffee shop. He asks her how ''Film/JulesAndJim'' is going (it was released the next year).
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* ShoutOut: When Emile and Angela first call Alfred up to their apartment, he says he doesn't want to miss ''Film/{{Breathless}}'' on TV.

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''Une femme est une femme'' (''A Woman Is a Woman'') is a 1961 film directed by Creator/JeanLucGodard.

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''Une femme est une femme'' (''A ("A Woman Is a Woman'') Woman") is a 1961 film directed by Creator/JeanLucGodard.



* BreakingTheFourthWall: Early in the film Angela meets Alfred in the street. He asks to talk to her. She blows him off and goes into a club, leading Alfred to look directly into the camera and say "And off she goes."

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* BreakingTheFourthWall: BreakingTheFourthWall:
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Early in the film Angela meets Alfred in the street. He asks to talk to her. She blows him off and goes into a club, leading Alfred to look directly into the camera and say "And off she goes.""
** Before a scene where Angela melodramtically accuses Emile of not loving her, she says that they have to acknoweldge the audience. So they both turn to the camera, bow, and then continue playing the scene.
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* LiteralAssKicking: A scene where Angela and Alfred are striking poses ends with both of them posing with their hands on their knees. She turns around and kicks him in the butt.
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* FanserviceExtra: There are a lot of strippers at the club, including a quick shot of a lady wearing nothing but bikini briefs (even in France, this was daring for 1961).


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* ImagineSpot: Angela, who has a habit of making random comments out of nowhere, says that she'd like to be in a musical. And then for an instant she is, complete with costume change as she's briefly dancing on the sidewalk, before the brief sequence ends and she's back to what she was wearing before.
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* MatchCut: Angela, coming back from her act wearing nothing but a towel, points to some piece of clothing and asks if she can try it on. She passes behind a pillar--cut to the pillar from the opposite direction as Angela passes out from behind it, wearing the smart red blouse that she wanted to try.


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* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Angela's a stripper, and there are many scenes at the strip club, including her number (although this movie is 1961 so there's a SexyDiscretionShot).
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* HandOrObjectUnderwear: The same stripper who provided ToplessnessFromTheBack then walks through the backstage of the strip club holding her hands over her breasts.
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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: One of the strippers at Angela's club shucks off a dress and walks away wearing nothing but tights on her bottom.

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''Une femme est une femme'' (''A Woman Is a Woman'') is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman named Angela Récamier (Creator/AnnaKarina) who greatly wants to have a child and repeatedly requests so of her lover, Émile (Jean-Claude Braily). When he refuses to impregnate her and they begin a long fight, Angéla sleeps with Alfred (Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo), Émile's best friend, out of spite and desperation.

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''Une femme est une femme'' (''A Woman Is a Woman'') is a 1961 film directed by Creator/JeanLucGodard. Creator/JeanLucGodard.

It relates the story of a young woman named Angela Récamier (Creator/AnnaKarina) who greatly wants to have a child and repeatedly requests so of her lover, Émile (Jean-Claude Braily). When he refuses to impregnate her and they begin a long fight, Angéla sleeps with Alfred (Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo), Émile's best friend, out of spite and desperation.


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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Early in the film Angela meets Alfred in the street. He asks to talk to her. She blows him off and goes into a club, leading Alfred to look directly into the camera and say "And off she goes."
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''Une femme est une femme'' (''A Woman Is a Woman'') is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman named Angela Récamier (Creator/AnnaKarina) who greatly wants to have a child and repeatedly requests so of her lover, Émile (Jean-Claude Braily). When he refuses to impregnate her and they begin a long fight, Angéla sleeps with Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo), Émile's best friend, out of spite and desperation.

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''Une femme est une femme'' (''A Woman Is a Woman'') is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman named Angela Récamier (Creator/AnnaKarina) who greatly wants to have a child and repeatedly requests so of her lover, Émile (Jean-Claude Braily). When he refuses to impregnate her and they begin a long fight, Angéla sleeps with Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo), (Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo), Émile's best friend, out of spite and desperation.
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** Woolseyism: The Criterion Collection DVD subtitles change the translation slightly to give us this: "Angela, damn you." "No, a dame, me."

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** Woolseyism: {{Woolseyism}}: The Criterion Collection DVD subtitles change the translation slightly to give us this: "Angela, damn you." "No, a dame, me."
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** The Criterion Collection DVD subtitles change the translation slightly to give us this: "Angela, damn you." "No, a dame, me."

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** Woolseyism: The Criterion Collection DVD subtitles change the translation slightly to give us this: "Angela, damn you." "No, a dame, me."

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''Une femme est une femme'' (''A Woman Is a Woman'') is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman named Angela Récamier (Creator/AnnaKarina), who is torn between her two lovers: the official one, Émile (Jean-Claude Braily), who does not want to impregnate her, and the other, Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo), who happens to be Émile's best friend.

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''Une femme est une femme'' (''A Woman Is a Woman'') is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman named Angela Récamier (Creator/AnnaKarina), (Creator/AnnaKarina) who is torn between greatly wants to have a child and repeatedly requests so of her two lovers: the official one, lover, Émile (Jean-Claude Braily), who does not want Braily). When he refuses to impregnate her, her and the other, they begin a long fight, Angéla sleeps with Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo), who happens to be Émile's best friend.
friend, out of spite and desperation.



** The Criterion Collection DVD subtitles change the translation slightly to give us this: "Angela, damn you." "No, a dame, me."



* YourCheatingHeart: Angela cheats on one of her lovers with another. Because she is une femme.

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* YourCheatingHeart: Angela cheats on one of her lovers Émile with another. Alfred. Because she is une femme.
''une femme''.
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* LoveTriangle: For Angela Récamier, Émile and Alfred Lubitsch.
* MeaningfulName: For Alfred Lubitsch, of course, named after Creator/ErnstLubitsch.
* YourCheatingHeart: For Angela who cheats on one her lover with another. Because she is une femme.

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* LoveTriangle: For Angela Récamier, Émile Angela, Émile, and Alfred Lubitsch.
Alfred.
* MeaningfulName: For Alfred Lubitsch, Lubitsch is, of course, named after Creator/ErnstLubitsch.
* YourCheatingHeart: For Angela who cheats on one of her lover lovers with another. Because she is une femme.femme.

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''Une femme est une femme'' (''A Woman Is a Woman'') is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman named Angela Récamier (Creator/AnnaKarina), who is torn between her two lovers: the official one, Émile, who does not want to impregnate her and the other,

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''Une femme est une femme'' (''A Woman Is a Woman'') is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman named Angela Récamier (Creator/AnnaKarina), who is torn between her two lovers: the official one, Émile, Émile (Jean-Claude Braily), who does not want to impregnate her her, and the other,
other, Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo), who happens to be Émile's best friend.
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''Une femme est une femme'' (''A Woman Is a Woman'') is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman named Angela Récamier (played by Creator/AnnaKarina), whos is torn between her two lovers: the official one, Émile, who does not want to impregnate her and the other,

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''Une femme est une femme'' (''A Woman Is a Woman'') is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman named Angela Récamier (played by Creator/AnnaKarina), whos (Creator/AnnaKarina), who is torn between her two lovers: the official one, Émile, who does not want to impregnate her and the other,
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''Une femme est une femme'' (''A Woman Is a Woman'') is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman Angela Récamier, played by Creator/AnnaKarina, torn between her two lovers, the official one, Émile, who does not want to impregnate her and the other,

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''Une femme est une femme'' (''A Woman Is a Woman'') is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman named Angela Récamier, played Récamier (played by Creator/AnnaKarina, Creator/AnnaKarina), whos is torn between her two lovers, lovers: the official one, Émile, who does not want to impregnate her and the other,
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Une femme est une femme is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman Angela Récamier, played by Creator/AnnaKarina, torn between her two lovers, the official one, Émile, who does not want to impregnate her and the other,

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Une ''Une femme est une femme femme'' (''A Woman Is a Woman'') is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman Angela Récamier, played by Creator/AnnaKarina, torn between her two lovers, the official one, Émile, who does not want to impregnate her and the other,
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Une femme est une femme is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman Angela Récamier, plauyed by Creator/AnnaKarina, torn between her two lovers, the official one, Émile, who does not want to impregnate her and the other,

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Une femme est une femme is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman Angela Récamier, plauyed played by Creator/AnnaKarina, torn between her two lovers, the official one, Émile, who does not want to impregnate her and the other,
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* YourCheatinHeart: For Angela who cheats on one her lover with another. Because she is une femme.

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* YourCheatinHeart: YourCheatingHeart: For Angela who cheats on one her lover with another. Because she is une femme.
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Une femme est une femme is a 1961 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard. It relates the story of a young woman Angela Récamier, plauyed by Creator/AnnaKarina, torn between her two lovers, the official one, Émile, who does not want to impregnate her and the other,

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* LostInTranslation: The final pun. In the end Émile says "Angéla, tu es infâme" ("Angela, you are horrid"), and she retorts, "Non, je suis une femme" ("No, I am a woman").
* LoveTriangle: For Angela Récamier, Émile and Alfred Lubitsch.
* MeaningfulName: For Alfred Lubitsch, of course, named after Creator/ErnstLubitsch.
* YourCheatinHeart: For Angela who cheats on one her lover with another. Because she is une femme.

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