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Posting will be light here this afternoon–it’s a slooooooow post-holiday news day, and I’m planning to spend the better part of the afternoon at Film Forum swooning over Jean-Paul Belmondo in a new print of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Doulos. To get into the mood, I went to YouTube and searched for “Belmondo.” I found this trailer for A Woman is A Woman, Jean-Luc Godard’s 1961 “musical” starring Belmondo, Anna Karina, and Jean-Claude Brialy. In it, Godard explains (via wall-to-wall voice over) his Renoir-inspired approach to on-the-set improvisation. It’s semi-NSFW, but considering it’s a beautiful summer Friday afternoon, you’re probably not at work, anyway.

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