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Masculine, Feminine: In 15 Acts |
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 Release Date: 09/19/66 (Future Release)
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Chantal Goya, Catherine Duport, Marlene Jobert, Michel Debord
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Rating: (NR) |
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NEW YORK REVIEW
You’ll feel lightheaded with exhilaration watching the luminous new print of
Jean-Luc Godard’s strong 1966 bid to become the Bob Dylan of movies. This scattershot meditation mixes politics, pop culture, sexual tension, absurdist humor, and piety-puncturing interviews conducted by Godard’s on-screen surrogate, Jean-Pierre Léaud. Organized in fifteen “chapters”—scenes in which Léaud and his co-star, the beautiful pop singer Chantal Goya, flirt, quarrel, debate, and go to movies and her recording sessions—the film offers virulent anti-Vietnam statements one minute and dizzy romantic comedy the next. As Godard’s mouthpiece, Léaud uses cigarettes the way Dylan uses harmonicas, to puff thoughtful pauses into his ruminations on the counterculture. At once joyous and despairing (Léaud’s poignant aim, rarely achieved, is, he says to Goya, “to show you how I feel”), Masculine Feminine catches Godard as openhearted as he’d ever be-at the moment just before he became hardheaded and dogmatic. — Reviewed by Ken Tucker, New York Magazine
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