In French with English subtitles.
"It's not a musical-it's the idea of a musical." - Jean-Luc Godard |
Director:
Jean-Luc Godard
Screenplay:
Jean-Luc Godard
85 minutes |
Cast:
Angela:
Anna Karina
Alfred:
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Émile:
Jean-Claude Brialy
Angela's friend:
Marie Dubois |
“I’d like to be in a musical with Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly! Choreography by Bob Fosse!” So shouts Angela (Anna Karina), a stripper at The Zodiac Club who also yearns to be a mother. Her boyfriend (Jean-Claude Brialy) has no such ambitions, so she calls upon the services of his best friend, Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo). Jean-Luc Godard ushers in the sixties with his first color feature. This rarely seen gem (in a new print) celebrates sex, the single girl, and the Hollywood musical in the director’s signature genre-busting style, half intellectual treatise, half hopelessly daft romance. Bittersweet images by Godard cohort Raoul Coutard.
Featuring a song by Charles Aznavour and cameos by Jeanne Moreau and Marie Dubois in witty "clin d'oeil" to Francois truffaut's Jules and Jim and Shoot the Piano Player. |