Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1966 • France
Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert
With MASCULIN FÉMININ (“Masculine Feminine”), ruthless stylist and iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard introduces the world to “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola,” through a gang of restless youths engaged in hopeless love affairs with music, revolution, and each other. French new wave icon Jean-Pierre Leaud stars as Paul, an idealistic would-be intellectual struggling to forge a relationship with the adorable pop star Madeleine (real-life yé-yé girl Chantal Goya). Through their tempestuous affair, Godard fashions a candid and wildly funny free-form examination of youth culture in throbbing 1960s Paris, mixing satire and tragedy as only Godard can.
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1966 • France
Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert
With MASCULIN FÉMININ (“Masculine Feminine”), ruthless stylist and iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard introduces the world to “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola,” through a gang of restless youths engag...
MASCULIN FÉMININ star Chantal Goya was a leading member of the Ye-Ye generation, had a song on the charts in Japan, and strung together a series of hits in the sixties. In this 1966 interview, filmed for the television show “Au-dela de l’écran” and conducted at her home, outside of Paris, Goya ta...
The following interview with Chantal Goya was recorded in Paris, in May 2005. In it, she looks back on her career as a singer and on the experience of working with Jean-Luc Godard on MASCULIN FÉMININ.
A cinematographer for more than forty years, Willy Kurant has shot film for some of the best directors in cinema. From Jean-Luc Godard, on MASCULIN FÉMININ, to Orson Welles, on IMMORTAL STORY (1968), to Agnès Varda, on LES CRÉATURES (1969). The Criterion Collection interviewed Kurant in Paris, in...
Jean-Pierre Gorin and Jean-Luc Godard made seven films together as the Dziga-Vertov Group, including 1972’s TOUT VA BIEN. In this interview, Gorin discusses Godard's deepening narrative, historical, and cultural experimentation in MASCULIN FÉMININ. The Criterion Collection interviewed Gorin in Ne...
In this 2004 conversation, film scholars Freddy Buache and Dominique Païni discuss the impact and insight of MASCULIN FÉMININ, Jean-Luc Godard’s playfully subversive film. Buache, founder of the Cinémathèque suisse, was the “recipient” of Godard’s 1981 short film LETTRE À FREDDY BUACHE. Païni was...
MASCULIN FÉMININ was a coproduction of director Jean-Luc Godard’s Anouchka Films and the Swedish firm Sandrews Films. The “film within the film,” said by many to be a parody of Ingmar Bergman’s THE SILENCE (1963), was shot by Godard in Sweden. In this archival footage, a Swedish television crew v...
