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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonMoves us now because it's so playful and the players are so young - and because later, when Godard tried to play for keeps, in his self-consciously radical films of the late '60s and '70s, he began to lose his game.
- 90The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensIt is the work of a master -- of more than one, for that matter. Mr. Godard, who once called it "my first real film," was showing the obsession with, and mastery of, cinematic technique that would make him one of the culture heroes of the 1960's.
- 80TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineGodard's third feature film and his first in color, A Woman is a Woman is one of the most enjoyable of all the master's works.
- 70L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyThere are a couple of absurdly nonchalant song-and-dance sequences, though mostly, Michel Legrand's sumptuous music swells in anticipation of showstoppers that never happen.
- 70The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneMore than forty years have passed since A Woman Is a Woman won the Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival for "originality, youth, audacity, impertinence." (When did you last see a movie that might warrant such an award?) [26 May 2003, p. 102]
- 60Village VoiceJessica WinterVillage VoiceJessica WinterGodard light, but not lite: Its breezy postures front for melancholia.
- 60VarietyVarietyOnly intermittently bright. Too much homage to Yank musicals and comedies point up the lack of polish.
- 60Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumWhile its slender plot (stripper Karina wants a baby and turns to Belmondo when her boyfriend Brialy won't oblige her) can irritate in spots, the film's high spirits may still win you over.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertSlight and sometimes wearisome.
- 40Film ThreatPhil HallFilm ThreatPhil HallWhat may have seemed energetic and innovative four decades ago is fairly enervated today, and only the most rabid Godard fanatics will find reason to seek out its new theatrical re-release.