Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (1966)

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Writers:

Jean-Luc Godard (writer)
Guy de Maupassant (stories)

Release Date:

22 March 1966 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Paul is young, just demobbed from national service in the French Army, and dishillusioned with civilian life...

Plot Keywords:

Friend | Singer | Vietnam War | Pinball Machine | Imagery

Awards:

3 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud	...	Paul - un jeune homme instable
Chantal Goya	...	Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse
Marlène Jobert	...	Elisabeth Choquet - la copine d'Elisabeth
Michel Debord	...	Robert Packard - un syndicaliste
Catherine-Isabelle Duport	...	Catherine-Isabelle
Eva-Britt Strandberg	...	Elle (la femme dans le film)
Birger Malmsten	...	Lui (l'homme dans le film)

Also Known As:

Masculin, féminin (France) (short title)
Masculine, Feminine: In 15 Acts (International: English title) (complete title)
Masculine-Feminine
Maskulinum - femininum (Sweden)
Arseniko - thilyko (Greece) [el]
Il maschio e la femmina (Italy) [it]
Masculin - Feminin oder: Die Kinder von Coca Cola (West Germany) [de]
Masculino Feminino (Portugal) [pt]
Masculino, femenino (Spain) [es]
Masculino-Feminino (Brazil) [pt]
Masculino-femenino (Argentina) [es]
Maskuliini feminiini (Finland) [fi]
Meski, zenski (Poland) [pl]

Runtime:

110 min | Argentina:103 min | Sweden:104 min | USA:103 min

Country:

France | Sweden

Language:

French | Swedish | English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | Iceland:L | Australia:MA | New Zealand:R16 | Argentina:16 | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:18 (w) | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Anouchka Films

Trivia:

The film was shot in Sweden. Ingmar Bergman, not being a fan of Jean-Luc Godard found out about the film, went to go and see it and called it "a classic case of Godard: mind-numbingly boring".

Quotes:

Catherine-Isabelle: Give us a TV and a car, but deliver us from liberty.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Hottest State (2006)

Soundtrack:

Laisse moi

Zero = pretentious ... Much Marx, much Pepsi ... and a spice of Yé -yé

There is a Godard that we cannot stand. He loves to talk about politics in his movies, but in much of them he talk with passion but without pity and let that the spectator forget about his voice and the message goes beyond redemption. Nothing of this happen in this masterpiece.

Here, Godard told us the story of a man (Leaud, in a very Antoine Doinel aura) and woman (Beautiful yé-yé singer Chantal Goya)in 15 scenes. And the experience is breathtaking. It incorporate the politics in the sex of each one, at the end, their souls and their bodies are fulfilled of this mentality. And we believe him, because we are men and women ... and we understand it.

And of course, our characters, love be young. Love to run, to sing, to have sex, love to love and to be loved. With the thing that made BANDE À PART a great experience, MASCULINE FEMENINE is in definitive one of Godard best work. The less pretentious, enjoyable and human. Criterion got an excellent copy of it.