Godard always makes me smile, frequently makes me crack up, but I laughed continuously through out A WOMAN IS A WOMAN. It is his funniest film.
The conversation about the overcooked roast beef, Alfred and Emile's absurd competition over who can do "the most extraordinary thing", Angela and Emile's quarrel using book titles, flipping the egg, the self referential New Wave shout outs... fantastically memorable scenes one after another.
A WOMAN IS A WOMAN is simultaneously playful and subversive, and endlessly endearing.
"I don't know if this is a comedy, or a tragedy... but it is a masterpiece."
(How great is that poster, by the way?)
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Yes! I think every Godard film makes me laugh at least a few times, but you're probably right that this is his funniest. Offhand, the only one that gives it some competition is the first 20 minutes or so of Keep Your Right Up, in which Godard himself engages in some hilarious physical comedy routines, suggesting that in another era he might've been a silent film comedian. Unfortunately, not long after this promising opening the film wanders off into obscurantism, leaving A Woman Is a Woman unchallenged as his funniest film all the way through.
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