Metrograph

In her second collaboration with then-husband Godard, an audaciously avant garde, anarchically comic, inside joke-laden re-imagination/deconstruction of the movie musical, Anna Karina stars as Angela, a strip-tease artist at the seedy Zodiac Club who yearns for motherhood, busy juggling live-in boyfriend Jean-Claude Brialy and his would-be replacement, Jean-Paul Belmondo, between performances. Ravishingly photographed in richly colored studio sets and on the streets of Paris, bursting with impertinent originality, and shot through with shrapnel-like fragments of song from Charles Aznavour and Michel Legrand. “Godard’s idea of a musical is, of course, the idea of a musical… It’s the grande folie of Godard’s early career.” —J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

Distributor: Rialto Pictures