Masculin Féminin
Jean-Luc Godard's Swinging Look at Youth and Love in Paris Today!
Production
Budget
$0
Box office
$205 543
Director
Actors
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Michel Debord, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Evabritt Strandberg, Birger Malmsten, Yves Afonso, Henri Attal, Mickey Baker
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Anatole Dauman, Jean-Luc Godard
Camera operator
Willy Kurant
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film had no script – instead, it used brief descriptions of the main scenes. The dialogue for each subsequent scene was written the day before filming, and in some cases was entirely improvised by the actors.
- The film explores themes of youth and sexual relationships, which led to its being banned in France for viewers under 18. As Jean-Luc Godard put it, “precisely for the people it was made for.”
- During the filming of the scene in the cinema, the actors had to sit in front of a blank screen and react as if they were watching a movie. Madeleine’s actress, Chantal Goya, asked director Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) what exactly they were watching, and he replied that “Gone with the Wind” (1939) by Victor Fleming (1889-1949), George Cukor (1899-1983), and Sam Wood (1883-1949) was playing on the screen. Goya reacted as if she were watching a romantic melodrama. Only later did she learn that the blank screen was actually showing some kind of art-house pseudo-pornographic film.
- The film explores themes of youth and sexual relationships, which led to it being banned in France for viewers under 18. As Jean-Luc Godard put it, "the very people for whom it was made."
- The film had no script; instead, brief descriptions of the main scenes were used. Dialogues for each subsequent scene were written the day before filming, and in some cases, were entirely improvised by the actors.
- During the filming of the cinema scene, the actors had to sit before a blank screen and react as if they were watching a movie. Chantal Goya, who played the role of Madeleine, asked director Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) exactly what they were watching, and he replied that it was "Gone with the Wind" (1939) by Victor Fleming (1889-1949), George Cukor (1899-1983), and Sam Wood (1883-1949). Goya reacted as if she were watching a romantic melodrama. Only later did she learn that the blank screen was actually a screening of some art-house pseudo-pornographic film.
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