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Masculin Féminin

Jean-Luc Godard  •  France • ​ 1966
110 mins  •   Black and white  •   R16
​
 ​In French with English subtitles

A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.

“
Its parodies and satires are recklessly inventive, and its fundamental pessimism isn't as flip as it may at first seem.”
– Time Out
DIRECTOR: Jean-Luc Godard​
PRODUCER: Anatole Dauman
SCREENPLAY: Jean-Luc Godard
PHOTOGRAPHY: Willy Kurant
EDITORS: Agnès Guillemot,  Marguerite Renoir
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Philippe Dussart
MUSIC: Jean-Jacques Debout
WITH: Jean-Pierre Léaud (Paul), Chantal Goya (Madeleine), Marlène Jobert (Elisabeth), Michel Debord
(Robert), Catherine Duport (Catherine), Eva-Britt Strandberg (Lavinia), Birger Malmsten (Actor), Elsa Leroy (Miss 19 of "Mademoiselle Age Tendre"), Françoise Hardy, Chantal Darget, Brigitte Bardot, ​Antoine Bourseiller

REVIEW

Of all Godard's political films (of which this is one of the earliest), Masculin, féminin is perhaps the most multi-faceted and engaging.  It may not be as strident or as politically coherent as some of the director's later political films - notably La Chinoise (1967) and Week End (1967) - but it has that unmistakable mix of Nouvelle Vague poetry and anarchic playfulness which makes it one of the most digestible and stimulating offerings from Godard's intellectually challenging middle period.  Perhaps no other film by Jean-Luc Godard captures the spirit of the 1960s, and hints at the turbulence to come, more than this witty and insightful piece of social commentary.

—
James Travers, Frenchfilms.org


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