A woman is a woman Une femme est une femme When Angela (Karina) wants to have a baby, but finds her boyfriend Émile (Brialy) an unwilling participant, she goes to his friend Alfred (Belmondo), proving the lengths to which she’ll go to his friend Alfred (Belmondo), proving the lengths to which she’ll go to realize her dream. Festooned with enough eccentric musical moments to satisfy the most avant of gardists, including a Charles Aznavour song almost arbitrarily rocketing on and off the soundtrack and Michel Legrand’s pre-Umbrellas of Cherbourg score thundering into split-second breaks in dialogue, cinematic in-jokes galore, and plenty of anarchic humor, A WOMAN IS A WOMAN is a cinephile’s dream film. A jeu d’esprit of the New Wave that won a jury prize from the Berlin Film Festival for its “originality, youth, audacity and impertinence,” while the enchanting Karina (in her first major role) was named Best Actress. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION: Jury Prize (Berlin Film Festival, 1961) ; Best Actress (BerlinFilm Festival, 1961)