A Woman Is A Woman (1961) Godard’s view is that a woman will sleep with anybody to have a child. Jean-Claude Brialy as Émile, and Jean-Paul Belmondo as Alfred, compete over Anna Karina’s body in Godard’s first Cinemascope color feature, a parody of Hollywood musicals. Anna Karina won a Silver Bear for her performance in this, and deservedly so. She will always be radiant as long as this film exists. Besides, how can I not love a movie where lovers quarrel with each other by taking books off shelves to read quotes at one another in an argument!
This is NOT what I wanted for Christmas.
The evergreen has lost its green, and pines
Have shed their needles in random designs,
Making a byzantine cutting room mess.
There was a time of youthful abandon,
Playful happiness at being alive,
Redefining the male and female drive,
As mores unmoored tides of rebellion.
This Danish model earned critical praise,
Stripped from a misogynistic head trip
What it meant to be in a relationship,
And undermined her husband’s cold male gaze.
Each day, another loss brings no answer.
We now speak in memes, signs under Cancer.
[Disposable Christmas Poem December 15, 2019]
Dr. Mike
In Memory of Anna Karina
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