Une femme est une femme

'A woman' is Anne Karina, a free spirited Parisian stripper who wants a baby and wants one now. The film is a tribute to 1950's MGM American musicals and therefore like the long goodbye challenges the traditional formula of a detective film, here Godara is doing the same to a musical, thus creating a neo- realist musical. In 'A woman' Godard is playful in his use of cinema technique, for example with sudden interventions of score music as if leading up to a big musical number, to a rhythmically edited argument. Furtherstill, with sudden pauses in the music during various points within the scene this draws your attention to the moment, argument and what is being said. In some cases it leads to silence allowing the characters expression to talk. For me this seemed to add humour to the film, yet it also oddly seemed to bring the scenes together more, as one was able to relate the pause in one scene to the previous. This act of reptition can also be seen when Emile and Angela  are in bed and then take the lamp to find books to call each other names using the book titles. Not only does repition make tis funny but also the act of repitition.
In the 'Long Goodbye' one or two pieces of violence are completly at odds with the rest of the film and this is used for effect, it challenges the genre, in the car he is explaining how much he loves her and then suddenly smashes the bottle in her face. This along with the unexpected shooting at the end which doesn't suit how the detective had treated everyone else through the film and is therefore uncharacteristic is similar to the uncharacteristic music within 'une femme est une femme'. Godard is being playful and this is similar to Odman in 'The long goodbye', very different to 'slacker'. In the 'Long goodbye' violence disrupts the balance of the film yet perhaps this is typical of LA in the 70s, the shooting at the end which seemed to unbalance is like the attitude of LA at the time, its like giving up.
The way the film is shot in 'the long goodbye' is quite raw an organic, this is very different to 'une femme est une femme'. Yet I feel it is more realistic private detectives get destracted and may not just be focused on the case for example the film shows dogs mating on the side of the street. In 'une femme est une femme' and 'slacker' the cuts are more abrupt and the space less well adapted. But perhaps 'the long goodbye' is better as here the film works in real time and real motion, its more complex. On the other hand what is the point in filming things that are not related to the plot?
Never the less although the films are all very different and there are alot of comparisons, I feel that upon further examination there are also strong links. We will have to wait and see how the next films compare...