Masculine-Feminine
1966, NR, 103 min.
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya.

In this, the first of three films completed by Godard in 1966, the filmmaker explores the courtship rituals of the “children of Marx and Coca-Cola,” as he calls them. The film perfectly captures the hesitations, bravado, and awkwardness experienced by France’s youth generation. Leaud plays a pop revolutionary and Goya a yé-yé pop singer, whose comings together and partings are recorded in a series of sketches and observations. Godard breaks little new cinematic ground here, but his cunning revelations regarding the politics of sex make Masculine-Feminine one of his most durable favorites. New print.

This article appears in July 15 • 2005.

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