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| Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Produced by | Anatole Dauman |
| Written by | Guy de Maupassant Jean-Luc Godard |
| Starring | Jean-Pierre Léaud Chantal Goya Marlène Jobert Michel Debord |
| Music by | Jean-Jacques Debout |
| Cinematography | Willy Kurant |
| Distributed by | Columbia Films S.A. |
| Release date(s) | 22 March 1966 |
| Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Masculin, féminin is a 1966 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Paul, a romantic young idealist and literary lion-wannabe who chases budding pop star, Madeleine (Chantal Goya, a real life Yé-yé girl). Despite markedly different musical tastes and political leanings, the two soon become romantically involved and begin a "ménage à quatre" with Madeleine's two roommates, Catherine (Catherine-Isabelle Duport) and Elisabeth (Marlène Jobert). The camera probes the young actors in a series of vérité-style interviews about love, love-making, and politics.
The film is based on two stories by Guy de Maupassant. Due to the portrayal of youth and sex, the film was prohibited to persons under 18 in France — "the very audience it was meant for," griped Godard — while the Berlin Film Festival named it the year's best film for young people.[1]
Masculin, féminin is a notable film within Godard's 60s period of filmmaking, and is considered by critics as representative of 1960s France and Paris.[citation needed] The film contains references to various pop culture icons and political figures around that time, such as Charles de Gaulle and André Malraux to James Bond and Bob Dylan, and follows Godard's non-linear filmmaking techniques and narratives. The main story is at times interrupted by various sequences and sub-plots, including a scene paraphrased from LeRoi Jones’ Dutchman. Arguably the most famous quotation from the film is "This film could be called The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola", which is actually an intertitle between chapters.
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[edit] Cast
- Jean-Pierre Léaud as Paul - un jeune homme instable
- Chantal Goya as Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse
- Marlène Jobert as Elisabeth Choquet - la copine d'Elisabeth
- Michel Debord as Robert Packard - un syndicaliste
- Catherine-Isabelle Duport as Catherine-Isabelle
- Eva-Britt Strandberg as Elle (la femme dans le film)
- Birger Malmsten as Lui (l'homme dans le film)
[edit] Accolades
Jean-Pierre Léaud won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Godard on "Masculine Feminine"
- ^ "Berlinale 1966: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1966/03_preistr_ger_1966/03_Preistraeger_1966.html. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
