Synopsis
With Masculin féminin, ruthless stylist and iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard introduces the world to “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola,” through a gang of restless youths engaged in hopeless love affairs with music, revolution, and each other. French new wave icon Jean-Pierre Leaud stars as Paul, an idealistic would-be intellectual struggling to forge a relationship with the adorable pop star Madeleine (real-life yé-yé girl Chantal Goya). Through their tempestuous affair, Godard fashions a candid and wildly funny free-form examination of youth culture in throbbing 1960s Paris, mixing satire and tragedy as only Godard can.
Cast
| Paul | Jean-Pierre Léaud |
| Madeleine | Chantal Goya |
| Elisabeth | Marlène Jobert |
| Robert | Michel Debord |
| Catherine-Isabelle | Catherine-Isabelle Duport |
| Herself | Brigitte Bardot |
| Bardot's director | Antoine Bourseiller |
| Woman with American officer | Francoise Hardy |
| Man in the movie | Birger Malmsten |
| Woman in the movie | Eva-Britt Strandberg |
| Miss 19 | Elsa Leroy |
| Record producer | Mickey Baker |
| Man in the metro | Med Hondo |
Credits
| Director | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Screenplay | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Based on "La Femme de Paul" and "Le signe" by | Guy de Maupassant |
| Producer | Anatole Dauman |
| Cinematography | Willy Kurant |
| Editing | Agnès Guillemot |
| Songs | Jean-Jacques Debout |
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Willy Kurant
- Archival 1966 interview with actress Chantal Goya
- New video interviews with Goya, Kurant, and Jean-Luc Godard collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin, conducted in 2005
- Video discussion of the film between French film scholars Freddy Buache and Dominique Païni
- Swedish television footage of Godard directing the “film within the film” scene
- Trailers for the original theatrical release and the 2005 rerelease
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Plus: a 16-page booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Adrian Martin and a reprint of a report from the set by French journalist Phillippe Labro
From the Current
Masculin féminin:
The Young Man for All Times
by
Sep 19, 2005
When I was a teenage cinephile, in the mid-seventies, Masculin féminin was enormously significant to me. It repre-sented France’s nouvelle vague of the 1960s, with its youthful, anarchic...
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