Masculin Féminin( 1966)

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Jean-Luc Godard's Swinging Look at Youth and Love in Paris Today!

Overview

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.

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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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A review by CRCulver

Written by CRCulver on Tue Jun 05 2018

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 am...