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Storyline

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.

Released

1966-03-22
Revenue

n/a
Budget

n/a
Runtime

1hr 45m
Genre

Drama, Romance
Status

Released
Language

English, Français, svenska
7.4
Production

SF Studios, Sandrews, Anouchka Films, Argos Films

Crew

Jean-Luc Godard

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Writer

Jean-Luc Godard

Producer

Keywords:

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Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Paul

Chantal Goya

Madeleine Zimmer

Marlène Jobert

Élisabeth Choquet

Michel Debord

Robert Packard

Catherine-Isabelle Duport

Catherine-Isabelle

Evabritt Strandberg

She (Woman in the Film)

Birger Malmsten

He (Man in the Film)

Yves Afonso

Man Who Kills Himself (uncredited)

Henri Attal

The Other Porn Book Reader (uncredited)

Mickey Baker

Record Producer (uncredited)

Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot (uncredited)

Antoine Bourseiller

Brigitte Bardot's Director (uncredited)

Chantal Darget

Woman in the Subway (uncredited)

Françoise Hardy

American Officer's Wife (uncredited)

Med Hondo

Man in the Subway (uncredited)

Elsa Leroy

Miss 19 Years Old (uncredited)

Dominique Zardi

The Porn Book Reader (uncredited)

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Reviews for Masculin Féminin

A Review by CRCulver 8

Written by CRCulver on 2018-06-05

In MASCULIN FEMININ, shot in the autumn of 1965, Jean-Luc Godard studies the perennial features of courtship and dating between young men an... read more

In MASCULIN FEMININ, shot in the autumn of 1965, Jean-Luc Godard studies the perennial features of courtship and dating between young men and young women, and the particular way they worked out in the newly permissive and economically booming society of 1960s France. Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is 21 and has just finished his national service. In a café, he strikes up a conversation with Madeleine (Chantal Goya), a friend of a friend, with the pretext that she might help him find work. They start dating, and the film then tracks their rocky relationship, where Paul is frustrated as the sole man among Madeleine and her flatmates/girlfriends Elisabeth (Marlène Jobert) and Catherine-Isabelle (Catherine-Isabelle Duport). He occasionally meets up with his chum Robert (Michel Debord), just as young but already a passionate union activist. But really, this is a lot more than a study in boy meets girl. Godard gives us a whole bucket of 1960s social, political, and cultural themes. Paul and Robert are both passionate members of the French Left, while the girls are more interested in the other side of the ideological divide, namely consumer society (pop music, clothes, cars). Their conversations reveal Godard's own unease at how the world was developing in the 1960s, his fears of political repression, dizzying technological progress, and a working class who had no time to enjoy all the stuff it could now buy. At several points in the film, the main characters overhear conversations in public places that are completely over-the-top in terms of sex and violence, but which reveal some of the tensions in society. In fact, in one of the film's most striking scenes, Godard without warning has Leáud interview a real young woman (Elsa Leroy) who had recently won a fashion magazine's "girl of the year" award, asking her about politics, war, and what she wants from life. In this six-minute scene where only she is visible on camera, clearly put on the spot, she seems totally oblivious to the war in Vietnam and other great issues of the day. Your reviewer is quite a passionate armchair historian about 1960s youth culture in Europe, and like many other books and films, MASCULIN FEMININ shows that many of the issues of the day are still very relevant for us in the new millennium. For this film, Godard's usual cameraman Raoul Coutard was unavailable, so he brought in Willy Kurant. While the two reportedly quarreled during the production, Kurant pulls off some remarkable long takes, again elevating a boy-meets-girl or boy-and-girl-have-rocky-relationship story into a delight for the eye. The use of sound (live sound from the cafés in which they shot, the occasional peal of gunfire) is also distinctive. MASCULIN FEMININ is perhaps less raved about than other Godard films from this time. It can arguably be called a minor effort in its recycling many elements from earlier productions while still searching for a way forward. That recycling isn't a bad thing, however, as the use of formal elements (division into tableau, a brutally abrupt ending) from Vivre sa vie, for instance (not to mention other earlier efforts), works just as well in the context of this story. I was initially baffled by the ending and how the film led up to it, but the more I look back at it, the more I'm impressed.