Line #11 Film/MasculinFeminin


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3	->''This film could be called The Children of Creator/KarlMarx and Coca-Cola.''-'''TitleCard'''
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5	''Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis'' is a 1966 film by Creator/JeanLucGodard.
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7	It is his rather free-form rumination on the contemporary youth of 1966, featuring numerous monologues where characters express their thoughts on what it is to be young. Creator/JeanPierreLeaud stars as a young man of 21 who has just completed his 18 months of compulsory service in the French army. He is spending time with Madeline (Chantal Goya), a fashion model who is branching out into pop music and has a single on the verge of release. Eventually they start a relationship, one which eventually includes Madeline's roommates Catherine-Isabelle (Catherine-Isabelle Duport) and Elisabeth (Creator/MarleneJobert). All of the above is really just a framework on which to hang Godard's thoughts on youth and desire.
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11	* AsHimself: Creator/BrigitteBardot and Francoise Hardy appear as themselves.
12	* AsideGlance: Paul glances at the camera repeatedly in a scene where he leaves a cafe and heads to the Metro station.
13	* CharacterFilibuster: Omnipresent trope here. All young characters report on their relations with the opposite sex as well as their political views. They deliver some pretty lengthy monologues.
14	* DiabolusExMachina: The film ends with Paul falling off a balcony on a high rise to his death, by accident--and it isn't shown, only described to the police afterwards.
15	* TheEnd: At one point Paul says that there aren't any smaller words that one can make out of "FEMININ". At the end, the word "FEMININ" comes onscreen, the gunshot sound that Godard uses for scene transitions rings out, and the only letters remaining are "F__IN__". That is, "FIN".
16	* EroticFilm: InUniverse, Paul and the girls go to see one. Madeline's roommates don't care for it but Madeline does. The [[ShowWithinAShow Film Within A Film]] includes some overtly suggested (but not actually shown) fellatio, which even in France was pretty daring for 1965.
17	* EpicTrackingShot: A scene where Paul and Madeline go into a cafe to talk about their relationship, only to be interrupted by a couple of dudes reading out loud from a pornographic magazine, runs three minutes without a cut.
18	* IceCreamKoan: Some of the title cards that Godard puts up between scenes.
19	--> "The mole has no consciousness, yet it burrows in a specific direction."
20	* TheMovieBuff: Paul is enough of a film buff that when he's watching a movie and realizes it's in the wrong AspectRatio, he charges into the projection booth to yell at the projectionist.
21	* MythologyGag: Paul keeps trying to flip a cigarette into his mouth the way Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo did in another Godard film, ''Film/{{Breathless}}''. He can't quite get the hang of it.
22	* TheOner: A very uncomfortable scene has Paul, offscreen, interviewing an extremely pretty but vapid young woman. Over the course of the conversation he fires questions at her both personal (asking her about birth control) and political (asking her to name all the places in the world where there are wars going on). It runs six minutes and the camera never moves.
23	* SeinfeldianConversation: Also happens a lot.
24	* ShoutOut: When Paul says he's gotten a car, we get two references for the price of one, one to Godard's previous films and one to Léaud's; Madeline says "You're not Film/PierrotLeFou! He steals cars for his woman!", while Paul says he requested the car in the name of General [[Film/TheAdventuresOfAntoineDoinel Doinel]].
25	* SpeechCentricWork: Lots and lots of talking.

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