MASCULINE FEMININE (Masculin Féminin: 15 Faits Précis) (1966) - ♦♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Jean-Luc Godard

Written by - Jean-Luc Godard (based on the stories by Guy de Maupassant)

Starring - Chantal Goya, Jean-Pierre Leaud

"A troubled and alienated love story between a young man who fancies himself an intellectual and a revolutionary and a young woman who dreams of becoming a successful pop star is the subject for a film which represents a high point in the incendiary and influential film movement known as the French New Wave by one of its most acknowledged exponents, Jean-Luc Godard. Shot right out in t he street, this is a testament of its fast moving times, as well as a seemingly hopeless research for tenderness among the fierce and never ending battle of the sexes in a disenchanted youth culture. Godard does so in a structure which divides the film into fifteen different episodes, filled with creativity, and starring two major iconic stars, one an icon of cinema of the time, Jean Pierre Léaud, and the other French pop star Chantal Goya."

Drama, France/Sweden