Masculine/Feminine was Jean-Luc Godard's first (but not the last) foray into the burgeoning Children of the Sixties generationor, as Godard described it, the children of Marx and Coca-Cola . Impressionable teenager Jean-Pierre Leaud tries to make sense of the world by working as an interviewer for a research firm. Meanwhile, Leaud cohabits with aspiring singer Chantal Goya, with two additional young ladies joining the nocturnal festivities. Leaud jumps or is pushed from a window, leaving a pregnant Goya to move on to the next aimless youth she meets. While the nominal hero has failed to find fulfillment in personal relations, another male protagonist (Micheal Deborb), a political activist, is luckier an indication that the director favored revolutionary politics over simple emotionalism at this point in his career. Though Godard's free-form style is usually opposed to linear storytelling, Masculine Feminine has solid literary roots, having been inspired by two Guy de Maupassant.
With Masculin Feminin 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 Laud stars as Paul an idealistic would-be intellectual struggling to forge a relationship with adorable pop star Madeleine (real-life y-y 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 Goddard can.
'Masculin Feminin' stars Truffaut favourite Jean-Pierre Leaud Chantal Goya and Brigitte Bardot; set against a background of an edgy France gripped by political upheaval the Vietnam war and an election in which Charles De Gaulle kept his grip on power much to the frustration of the disgruntled Left. Structuring the film around 15 scenes of varying lengths Godard takes the deceptively simple story of the relationship between an ex-army recruit Paul (Leaud) and aspiring pop singe
Vivre Sa Vie (1962): This award winning film plots a Parisian woman's descent into prostitution against a backdrop of change and disruption brilliantly chronicling the social conditions and mores of the time and culminating in a shocking finale. Masculin Feminin (1966): Reaping multi awards at the 1966 Berlin Film Festival Goddard's seventh feature is set against a background of an edgy France gripped by Political upheaval the Vietnam war and an election in wich de Gaulle retained power much to the disgust of the disgruntled Left. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967): The film centers around Juliette (Marina Vlady) a housewife who spends one day a week selling her body on the streets in an attempt to escape her drab suburban existence.
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