Wednesday, November 7, 2007

"A Woman is a Woman"

This is a scene from Jean-Luc Godard's 1961 film, A Woman is a Woman. The woman is Anna Karina, who was Godard's wife at the time of shooting, and she plays a prostitute who longs to to have a baby. This portrays a very sweet strip tease where Karina is singing a very optimistic, innocent song. Notice the music is omitted every time the verse begins. This was one of Godard's elements of surprise. The atmosphere couldn't be more depressing yet somehow Karina lightens the mood and makes a strip tease look like a sweet, naive, cute dance number. Godard portrays Karina's natural beauty in a way that gives us the idea of sex in our mind but doesn't convey it in an explicit or predictable way.
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