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Masculin Féminin

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

7.3 / 10

105 minutes

1966-03-22

English

FR

Actors :

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Michel Debord, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Evabritt Strandberg, Birger Malmsten, Yves Afonso, Henri Attal, Mickey Baker, Brigitte Bardot, Antoine Bourseiller, Chantal Darget, Françoise Hardy, Med Hondo

Description

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.

Reviews

CRCulver

CRCulver

6/23/2021, 3:58:09 PM

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 (C...