JEAN-LUC GODARD’S SWINGING LOOK AT YOUTH AND LOVE IN PARIS TODAY!

One of Jean-Luc Godard’s most archetypal 1960s films has everything you’d associate the decade with culturally and politically – Vietnam, the young versus de Gaulle, and sexual liberation, with men and women sensing each other out in conversations.

Godard clearly aims for a young audience and builds his movie (supposedly inspired by a Guy de Maupassant story, but not really) in a number of vignettes that usually end drastically and/or violently; Jean-Pierre Léaud stars as an idealist working for a magazine.

Playful, but mostly for fans of Godard and people with a special passion for the ’60s.

1966-France-Sweden. 103 min. B/W. Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud (Paul), Chantal Goya (Madeleine Zimmer), Marlène Jobert (Elisabeth Choquet), Michel Debord, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Yves Afonso… Evabritt Strandberg, Birger Malmsten, Brigitte Bardot, Françoise Hardy. 

Trivia: Original title: Masculin Féminin. Co-produced by Godard.

Berlin: Best Actor (Léaud).