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02/09/06
Masculin Feminin (1966)
94 %
Reviews Counted: 33 Fresh: 31 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 8.5/10
Consensus:
A '60s time capsule stuffed with ideas about politics, pop culture, and the battle of the sexes, Masculine-Feminine is one of Godard's classic black-and-white films.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Synopsis: A film about "the children of Marx and Coca Cola" directed by the child of Brecht and Hollywood, MASCULINE-FEMININE is a touchstone in the career of Jean-Luc Godard, a window into the kinetic world of Paris in the 1960s, and a high point in the cinema of the French New Wave. It chronicles the love... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Catherine-Isabelle Duport
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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Top Critic
Jean-Luc Godard visited the world of young folk to create his most humane film.
08/29/06
No one was ever better at collecting a hodgepodge of ideas and making them work as a cohesive whole, as the voice of one hyper-intelligent, constantly frustrated commentator.
05/26/06
May not have aged any better than Godard's other films of the period, but that doesn't mean Paul and company don't continue to ask questions and spout the opinions of the newly enlightened.
10/14/05
There's a seductive immediacy to all this… despite the film's obvious satiric touches, you come away from it with a vivid impression of a time and place and the people who inhabited it.
09/02/05
Masculine, Feminine may not equal some of Godard's prior films but while it does revisit many of his usual themes it is noteworthy for being an intriguing dissection of where he, himself, fits into the picture.
08/16/05
The kaleidoscopic film's meandering mirrors the uncertainty of that restless, tumultuous era.
07/28/05
It's cumulatively entertaining, and a fascinating and nostalgic time capsule of its era.
06/17/05
It could shake up young viewers now as it 40 years ago, except that there's no French New Wave momentum of film passion.
06/03/05
One of the most alluring and bizarre shapes that Godard's itchy search for truth and meaning took in those heady long-ago days.
05/20/05
Jean-Luc Godard is like a fine wine that is an acquired taste... and I prefer margaritas.
05/06/05
This is the Godard that fans would like to take to the grave: jaundiced, naughty, immediate, very much alive.
05/05/05
Top Critic
One of the quintessential '60s foreign art films, a bizarre melange of pop music, revolution, sex, movie allusions and poetry.
04/14/05
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