MASCULINE FEMININE
[MASCULIN FÉMININ:15 FAITS PRÉCIS]
Jean-Luc Godard captures “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola” in this frisky portrait of youth and sex — and the shadow of politics — in 1960s Paris. Serious young man Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud) pursues budding pop star Madeleine (Chantal Goya), but her friends Elisabeth (Marlène Jobert) and Catherine-Isabelle (Catherine-Isabelle Duport) keep coming between them. The friends' "ménage à quatre" and their progressively different pursuits of happiness play out over the course of 15 "acts," each announced by gun reports and bold intertitles, plus manifold digressions into bits of documentary, musical and political theater. DIR/SCR Jean-Luc Godard, from the stories “La Femme de Paul” and “Le Signe,” by Guy de Maupassant; PROD Anatole Dauman. France/Sweden, 1966, b&w, 103 min. In French and Swedish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, August 04, 2023
Genre: Romance drama