A Woman is a Woman by Danielle Eberhard

Title/Year:  Une femme est une femme  (English Title: A Woman is a Woman) (1961)
Director/Birth Country/Year Born:  Jean-Luc Godard/France/1930
Budget:  $160,000
Gross:  $99,658 (USA)
Synopsis:  The story of a strong dependent woman wanting to have a baby.  When her husband refuses he goes to a friend for help and the chaotic world they live in is taken through many twists and turns as a result.
Narrative and Visual Keywords:  French, New Wave, Experimental Storyline, Musical, Comedy, Drama, pregnancy
Characterization/ Dialogue:  Outgoing, Dream filled, Theme Driven, Subtitled
Camera/lighting/editing technique:  Jump Cuts, Long Shots, Natural Light
Political/ Social Commentary:  French New Wave
Historical Relevance/ Recognition:  Part of the French New Wave in the Film Industry
Notable Collaboration:  None Found
Random fact, Etc.:  Godard's first colored film.
(All according to IMDB Movie Source)  

1. Can you detect object and subjective reality as well as authorship? Please describe.
For this film I can find a great deal of authorship.  Godard tells the story with visuals, score and character is very much his own.  I've never seen a film quite told in this fashion and it makes me want to watch some of his other works.  There is a great sense of objective and subjective reality.  Sometimes it made me wonder who I was, what POV I was in, what was going to happen, things like that.  There were many elements to it that made it seem as though it were a dream and yet you knew it wasn't.

2. How does the film treat political and or romantic or religious commitment?
This film is very much romantically based.  The main character is a woman working as an entertainer who stripes down in front of men.  She seduces them without really meaning to and it gets her into some trouble.  Her husband seems to play along with it.  It's just a 'woman' thing.  She goes through a point in her life where she would like to have a baby and thus the plot is set.  From there we see the emotional roller coaster Angela goes through and how she is able to control men and get what she wants.
 
3. After researching your auteur, can you see elements of their personality in their characters? If so, which? Can you guess what their take on society is? It would seem Godard is very pro-woman's choice.  He makes a film about women over powering men and how they go about doing it in a very sly sort of way.  The main character is one you instantly fall in love with and you're rooting for her to get what she wants even if it means the men have no say.  As a female, this strong Femme Fatal role is enlightening to see, especially since it's not overplayed.  I love that the men go along with whatever she does but they do still put their foot down so it's not an entirely 'woman run' society.  I feel Godard was trying to show that woman have just as much power as men and for it's time was a very political thing to portray in the public eye.