Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (1966)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

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 | Anti War | Pregnancy | Vietnam War

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)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yves Afonso	...	L'homme qui se suicide (uncredited)
Henri Attal	...	L'autre lecteur du bouquin porno (uncredited)
Brigitte Bardot	...	Elle-même (uncredited)
Antoine Bourseiller	...	Le partenaire de Brigitte Bardot (uncredited)
Chantal Darget	...	La femme dans le métro (uncredited)
Françoise Hardy	...	La compagne de l'officier américain (uncredited)
Med Hondo	...	L'homme dans le métro (uncredited)
Elsa Leroy	...	Mlle 19 ans de 'Mademoiselle Age Tendre' (uncredited)
Dominique Zardi	...	Le lecteur du bouquin porno (uncredited)

Directed by
Jean-Luc Godard

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Guy de Maupassant		stories La Femme de Paul and Le Signe
Jean-Luc Godard		writer

Produced by
Anatole Dauman	....	producer

Original Music by
Jean-Jacques Debout

Cinematography by
Willy Kurant

Film Editing by
Agnès Guillemot
Marguerite Renoir		(uncredited)

Production Management
Philippe Dussart	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jacques Barratier	....	assistant director
Bernard Toublanc-Michel	....	assistant director

Sound Department
René Levert	....	sound

Other crew
Christine Brierre	....	press attache
Marlène Jobert	....	body double: Chantal Goya (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Anouchka Films
• Argos Films
• Sandrews
• Svensk Filmindustri (SF)

Distributors

• Columbia Films (1966) (France) (theatrical)
• Royal Films International (1966) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner (1967) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Rialto Pictures (2004) (USA) (theatrical)
• New Yorker Video (1991) (USA) (VHS)
• Art Free (2005) (Greece) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Criterion Collection, The (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• Madman Entertainment (2006) (Australia) (DVD)
• Madman Entertainment (2006) (New Zealand) (DVD)
• Ripley's Home Video (2006) (Italy) (DVD)
• KinoVista (2007) (Russia) (TV)
• NEF Diffusion (????) (France) (theatrical) (new rights)
• Silver Screen Collection (2008) (Brazil) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Masculin, féminin (France) (short title)
Masculine, Feminine: In 15 Acts (International: English title) (complete title)
Masculine-Feminine
Maskulinum - femininum (Sweden)

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:

First film of Yves Afonso.

Quotes:

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

Movie Connections:

Referenced in I'm Not There. (2007)

Soundtrack:

Laisse moi

The other side of "Salut Les Copains"

It's strange this movie has not a single French comment.More than any Godard movie (I must confess I'm not a Godard fan,by a long shot),this one depicts a world now gone ,the world of the French sixties youth ,of the "Mademoiselle Age Tendre" magazine ,the world where a "pop" singer Chantal Goya used to sing "Si Tu Gagnes Au flipper" ("Should you win if you played pinball,you lost my heart ,'cause I know you dated my best friend" exciting huh?).Every year the trendy girls used to elect their "Mademoiselle Age Tendre" and the winner had tons of presents and had the privilege of dining with Johnny Hallyday,Françoise Hardy and other "pop" stars of the era.Godard shows one of the lucky recipients and for once he displays some humor.Abortion and suicide did not exist in the sixties youth world they (magazines and radios) built for them,but in Godard's flick,they loom in the background.The director makes a tricky use of the words "féminin" and "fin".It's Marlene Jobert's first important part.

You had to be here ,I guess.For people who did not live in France in the sixties ,it is an honest time capsule