Nouvelle vague euphoria was at its height when Jean-Luc Godard made his enormously clever third feature, A Woman Is a Woman (1961)... Seen today, what's fascinating is how much social awareness Godard brings to the notion of "heterosexual love." With her masklike makeup and bouffant hairdo, Karina is a total construction. This stubborn, graceful creature is not only the world's most demure stripper but merely the idea of a woman—or, at least, Godard's idea of one.
J. Hoberman
Haziran 21, 2004