<p><strong>“It's not a musical - it's the idea of a musical.” - Jean-Luc Godard</strong></p>

<p>In stunning colour CinemaScope and featuring Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean-Claude Brialy at the peak of their popularity, <em>A Woman Is a Woman</em> is Godard's clever and playful tribute to the American musical and the comedies of Ernst Lubitsch.</p>

<p>Karina plays a striptease artist who decides she wants to become pregnant “in the next 24 hours”. When her lover refuses to comply, she recruits his more-than-willing best friend.</p>

<p>Described by Godard as “a neorealist musical - that is, a contradiction in terms,” <em>A Woman Is a Woman</em> abounds with playful winks at the audience, from the opening call of “lights, camera, action” to the copious references to other Godard and Fran&ccedil;ois Truffaut films.</p>

<p>Karina's role in the film won her an award for best actress at the 1961 Berlin film festival.</p>

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