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22/03/1966 Drama, Romance 1h 45m
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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.

  1. Jean-Luc Godard

    Writer, Director

Top billed cast

  1. Jean-Pierre Léaud

    Paul

  2. Chantal Goya

    Madeleine Zimmer

  3. Marlène Jobert

    Élisabeth Choquet

  4. Michel Debord

    Robert Packard

  5. Catherine-Isabelle Duport

    Catherine-Isabelle

  6. Evabritt Strandberg

    She (Woman in the Film)

  7. Birger Malmsten

    He (Man in the Film)

  8. Yves Afonso

    Man Who Kills Himself (uncredited)

  9. Henri Attal

    The Other Porn Book Reader (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by CRCulver
Written by CRCulver on 2018-06-05
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...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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