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Masculin, FmininMasculin, fminin is a film released in 1966, directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The film stars French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Laud as a romantic young idealist and literary lion-wannabe who chases budding pop star Chantal Goya. Despite markedly different musical tastes (hes into Bach) and political leanings (hes a communist, shes clueless), the two soon become romantically involved and begin a mnage quatre with Madeleines two roommates. Ostensibly basing his film on two stories by Guy de Maupassant, Godard mixes off-the-cuff reportage and mise en scne to create a strikingly honest portrait of youth and sex (in France, it was prohibited to persons under 18 the very audience it was meant for, griped Godard while the Berlin Film Festival named it the years best film for young people), with Godards camera probing his young actors in a series of verit-style interviews about love, love-making, and politics. More than any other film of Godards heyday Masculin, fminin is a time capsule of France and Paris in the 1960s, with references to everyone from Charles de Gaulle and Andr Malraux to James Bond and Bob Dylan, and true to the Godard style filled with jokes, puns and non-sequiturs, the story repeatedly interrupted by seemingly extraneous incidents: a woman blows away her husband; a scene paraphrased from LeRoi Jones Dutchman; Brigitte Bardot rehearsing the lines of a play in a bistro; a Swedish sex-cum-art-film-within-a-film, with Laud stalking off just when things get hot on-screen to deliver a lecture on aspect ratio to the projectionist. See also External links
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