Posted on Sunday, 27 September 2009

oldhollywood: Anna Karina & Jean-Paul Belmondo in A Woman is a Woman (1961, dir. Jean-Luc Godard) “For me, it’s a film on the nostalgia for musical comedy, as when Anna says: “Ah, I’d like to be in a musical comedy,” it was rather in that vein….We made music that gave the impression that the people were often singing. I mean, which is placed at the same time as, and under, the words in order to give them the tone of opera. It isn’t a musical comedy, but it isn’t just a talking film either. It’s a regret that life is not lived in music.” -Jean-Luc Godard

oldhollywood:

Anna Karina & Jean-Paul Belmondo in A Woman is a Woman (1961, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

“For me, it’s a film on the nostalgia for musical comedy, as when Anna says: “Ah, I’d like to be in a musical comedy,” it was rather in that vein….We made music that gave the impression that the people were often singing. I mean, which is placed at the same time as, and under, the words in order to give them the tone of opera.

It isn’t a musical comedy, but it isn’t just a talking film either. It’s a regret that life is not lived in music.”

-Jean-Luc Godard