Trivia / Masculin Féminin

• The Danza: Catherine-Isabelle Duport plays Catherine-Isabelle.
• Irony as She Is Cast: Chantal Goya, who in real life was born in Vietnam, plays Madeline, a character who has no interest in Vietnam at the time.
• What Could Have Been: Originally, Godard was going to adapt two short stories by Guy de Maupassant, "Paul's Mistress" and "The Signal", until he decided against it. The film within the film Paul and Madeline go to is based on "The Signal".
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: As usual with a Godard film, dialogue for each scene was written the night before it was filmed.

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