Une Femme est Une Femme

This was an absolute joy. I'm going to be pretty much on message with this one, no startling insights here. I'm going to place my critical weight firmly behind every other critic of this film in saying it is a delight, from start to finish.

Perhaps a simple list of the multitude of inventive, funny, sad.. scenes in this film will surfice:

- An argument enacted out entirely through books. Anna Karina and Jean-Claude Brialy getting out of bed, balancing their upright lamp over a shoulder and marching around the apartment searching for books, the titles of which spell insults.
- Jean-Paul Belmondo desperate to get home to watch Breathless
- Belmondo's gregarious grin to the camera after mentioning his "friend" Burt
Lancaster
- Anna Karina's song that ends with the lines "because I am too gorgeous"
- Brialy blowing a kiss to Karina and nearly knocking an old lady flying

- This interchange between Brialy and Karina:
Angela: Would you rather have fish or meat for dinner?
Émile Récamier: Fish.
Angela: What would you have preferred if you were having meat?
Émile Récamier: I dunno. Veal.
Angela: And if you were to have beef rather than veal, would you prefer a steak or a roast?
Émile Récamier: A steak.
Angela: And had you answered roast, would you prefer it rare or well-done?
Émile Récamier: Rare.
Angela: [jump-cut to Angela returning with the well-done roast] Well, honey, you're out of luck. My roast beef's a little overdone.

- The scene in the bar with Karina and the Aznavour song
- Brialy's scarf
- Brialy's hair
- Their apartment's decor - white walls, red lampshades
- Belmondo's argument with a hotel owner

Oh it goes on and on and on. Just watch it!