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Masculin Féminin

Original title: Masculin féminin
  • 19661966
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 43m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
15K
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Masculin féminin (1966)
A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.
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  • Drama
  • Romance

A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.

IMDb RATING
7.5/10
15K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Jean-Luc Godard
  • Writers
    • Jean-Luc Godard
    • Bruce Goldstein(song translations 2005 reissue)
    • Guy de Maupassant(stories La Femme de Paul and Le Signe)
  • Stars
    • Jean-Pierre Léaud
    • Chantal Goya
    • Marlène Jobert
Top credits
  • Director
    • Jean-Luc Godard
  • Writers
    • Jean-Luc Godard
    • Bruce Goldstein(song translations 2005 reissue)
    • Guy de Maupassant(stories La Femme de Paul and Le Signe)
  • Stars
    • Jean-Pierre Léaud
    • Chantal Goya
    • Marlène Jobert
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 42User reviews
    • 59Critic reviews
    • 93Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 4 nominations

    Videos1

    Trailer
    Trailer 2:02
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    Photos92

    Brigitte Bardot and Antoine Bourseiller in Masculin féminin (1966)
    Masculin féminin (1966)
    Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Chantal Goya, and Jean-Pierre Léaud in Masculin féminin (1966)
    Brigitte Bardot and Antoine Bourseiller in Masculin féminin (1966)
    Catherine-Isabelle Duport and Marlène Jobert in Masculin féminin (1966)
    Catherine-Isabelle Duport and Chantal Goya in Masculin féminin (1966)
    Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Chantal Goya, and Jean-Pierre Léaud in Masculin féminin (1966)
    Catherine-Isabelle Duport and Jean-Pierre Léaud in Masculin féminin (1966)
    Chantal Goya and Jean-Pierre Léaud in Masculin féminin (1966)
    "Masculin, Feminin" Catherine Duport, Jean Pierre Leaud and Dir. Jean Luc Godard 1966 / **I.V.
    Masculin féminin (1966)
    Chantal Goya in Masculin féminin (1966)

    Top cast

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    Jean-Pierre Léaud
    Jean-Pierre Léaud
    • Paul - un jeune homme instableas Paul - un jeune homme instable
    Chantal Goya
    Chantal Goya
    • Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuseas Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse
    Marlène Jobert
    Marlène Jobert
    • Élisabeth Choquet - la copine de Madeleineas Élisabeth Choquet - la copine de Madeleine
    Michel Debord
    • Robert Packard - un syndicalisteas Robert Packard - un syndicaliste
    Catherine-Isabelle Duport
    Catherine-Isabelle Duport
    • Catherine-Isabelleas Catherine-Isabelle
    Evabritt Strandberg
    Evabritt Strandberg
    • Elle (la femme dans le film)as Elle (la femme dans le film)
    • (as Eva-Britt Strandberg)
    Birger Malmsten
    Birger Malmsten
    • Lui (l'homme dans le film)as Lui (l'homme dans le film)
    Yves Afonso
    Yves Afonso
    • L'homme qui se suicideas L'homme qui se suicide
    • (uncredited)
    Henri Attal
    Henri Attal
    • L'autre lecteur du bouquin pornoas L'autre lecteur du bouquin porno
    • (uncredited)
    Mickey Baker
    • Record produceras Record producer
    • (uncredited)
    Brigitte Bardot
    Brigitte Bardot
    • Brigitte Bardotas Brigitte Bardot
    • (uncredited)
    Antoine Bourseiller
    • Le partenaire de Brigitte Bardotas Le partenaire de Brigitte Bardot
    • (uncredited)
    Chantal Darget
    • La femme dans le métroas La femme dans le métro
    • (uncredited)
    Françoise Hardy
    Françoise Hardy
    • La compagne de l'officier américainas La compagne de l'officier américain
    • (uncredited)
    Med Hondo
    Med Hondo
    • L'homme dans le métroas L'homme dans le métro
    • (uncredited)
    Elsa Leroy
    • Mlle 19 ans de 'Mademoiselle Age Tendre'as Mlle 19 ans de 'Mademoiselle Age Tendre'
    • (uncredited)
    Dominique Zardi
    Dominique Zardi
    • Le lecteur du bouquin pornoas Le lecteur du bouquin porno
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jean-Luc Godard
    • Writers
      • Jean-Luc Godard
      • Bruce Goldstein(song translations 2005 reissue)
      • Guy de Maupassant(stories La Femme de Paul and Le Signe)
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Paul is young, just demobbed from national service in the French Army, and disillusioned with civilian life. As his girlfriend builds herself a career as a pop singer, Paul becomes more isolated from his friends and peers ('the children of Marx and Coca Cola', as the credits announce) and their social and emotional politics. —D.Giddings <darren.giddings@newcastle.ac.uk>
    • france
    • french new wave
    • nouvelle vague
    • 1960s
    • disillusionment
    • 70 more
    • Plot summary
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    • Taglines
      • Jean-Luc Godard's Swinging Look at Youth and Love in Paris Today!
    • Genres
      • Drama
      • Romance
    • Certificate
      • Not Rated
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Due to the portrayal of youth and sex, the film was prohibited to persons under 18 in France - "the very audience it was meant for," griped Jean Luc Godard.
    • Quotes

      Paul: We control our thoughts which mean nothing, and not our emotions which mean everything.

    • Crazy credits
      Contrary to what Paul and his friend decide in the laundry mat sequence, Godard points out just before the credits that the word "féminin" does in fact contain another word: "fin" [end].
    • Connections
      Edited into Bande-annonce de 'Masculin féminin' (1966)
    • Soundtracks
      Laisse moi
      (uncredited)

      Written by Jean-Jacques Debout

      Performed by Chantal Goya

      Editions de RCA

    User reviews42

    Review
    Top review
    9/10
    even through its moments of experimentation it's a fun, fully intriguing Godard flick
    I saw Masculin Feminin in a class last year and like with most of Jean-Luc Godard's films I was taken aback by how much the film doesn't stick to anything expected for the audience. This is Godard at the peak of his powers as a director for what has become a line associated forever with Godard- the Marx and Coca-Cola generation of people (or, those born in the 1940's). Like My Life to Live, the film is broken up into specific acts, but this time it isn't as discernible and even plays on when a new segment should start or end (sometimes it changes quite quickly). And the spontaneous feel that goes with many of the better Godard films is in full swing here, as Godard (according to the interviews on the DVD) sometimes just feeds the actors lines, or just questions to get true, if more documentary-like, answers from the actor(s). It's really one of the best films from the period that made Godard known all over the world; anyone seeing his later, more obscured semantic essay films need only to see a film like this or Band of Outsiders to see the filmmaker dealing with real characters and convincing dialog.

    Jean-Pierre Leaud is actually just as good here as he is in the 400 Blows, only in a slightly different way. The youth of this actor is still ever present, but here it's changed to be a little more of a radical guy. The uncertainty of the character of Paul, his interest in the opposite sex, and having an intelligent but aimless walk of life, is very in tune with the other Truffaut creation. He becomes, along with his co-stars (like the young, beautiful Chantal Goya as Madeline and Marlene Jobert as Elisabeth), if not really a direct representation of all the French youth at the time, something of a reflection of youth is like in general is present. These characters don't know what they want for their lives, but they do know that things like sex, rock and roll, protesting the oppression of governments, and keeping an interest in parts of life are what make up their day-to-day existences. What might seem very casual styling in following these characters, particularly Paul, is a bit more calculated than expected. Everything that unfolds goes from being very funny to philosophical to fly-on-the-wall to even the poetic. That the cinematography and visual style is more often than not exciting in where the camera may move or not, or where the length of the shot will hold.

    Individual moments make up some of the best that Godard's ever received, and from actors who being caught off-guard is not a negative. I loved the dialog between Paul and Madeline early in the film, as simple questions have some deeper contexts. Or when Paul is just walking along, a rock song starts, and a guy whips out a knife only to something very unexpected with a great, ironic payoff. Or the movie within the movie, a parody on Bergman's The Silence that isn't disrespectful and at the same time captures a cool attitude that these characters are looking at even if it's a bit above their own sexual attitude. But most striking both times I watched the film, even in its sort of un-reality and very 'movie' kind of way is when Madeline says a very poetic bit of wording in bed in the dark. Even in the moments when Godard's off-kilter filming isn't as appealing as in other points, as one who is apart of this age group the characters are in, I got enveloped in their loose, tragic-comic conversations and observations (not as preachy or didactic as in other works of the filmmaker). The ending, too, is perfectly shocking and puts a fine dramatic cap on what is really a bittersweet view of these people. And along with getting these characters right, this time and place, the places and people they encounter (little poetic notes of their own, as on the subway or in the coffee shops) add to its overall effect. One of the best films of 1966.
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    • Quinoa1984
    • Apr 15, 2006

    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 22, 1966 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Sweden
    • Official site
      • Rialto Pictures
    • Languages
      • French
      • Swedish
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Muski rod zenski rod
    • Filming locations
      • Scandic Hotel Continental, Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
    • Production companies
      • Anouchka Films
      • Argos Films
      • Sandrews
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $200,380
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $26,855
      • Feb 13, 2005
    • Gross worldwide
      • $200,380
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 43 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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