Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya and Marlène Jobert in Masculin Féminin (1966) Umbrella Entertainment
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya and Marlène Jobert in Masculin Féminin (1966) Umbrella Entertainment
Masculin Féminin (1966) Umbrella Entertainment

ACMI presents

Masculin Féminin

Jean-Luc Godard | France, Sweden | 1966 | MA15+
Film

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$18

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$14

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$12

When

Thu 29 Sep – Fri 21 Oct 2022

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Jean-Pierre Leaud and Chantal Goya embody the restless spirit of mid-sixties’ Paris in Godard’s funny-tender, free-wheeling, reportage-style satire of youth culture.

One of the quintessential '60s foreign art films, a bizarre melange of pop music, revolution, sex, movie allusions and poetry.

Chicago Tribune

‘The children of Marx and Coca-Cola’ stake their generational claim in a film from the mid-sixties composed of fifteen vignettes in which Jean-Pierre Léaud is cast as Paul, a young would-be intellectual aspiring to poet-revolutionary status while trying to work out which of his attractive woman friends he really loves – Chantal Goya’s Madeleine the apparent front-runner – and in which multiple characters (to quote film critic Adrian Martin) are caught in “a daisy chain of unrequited love”.

Curator's Note

After the breakneck pace and French New Wave stylings of Godard’s output in the first half of the 1960s, film critic Adrian Martin refers to Masculin Féminin in a 2005 essay as coming at “a transitional moment for Godard, who turned thirty-five during its production”. Following his divorce from Anna Karina and before he took up with the much younger (and politically precocious) Anne Wiazemsky, Masculin Féminin, in Martin’s assessment, “expressed a suspicious wariness on Godard’s part towards the young... all the characters are alienated poseurs of one kind or another”. Perhaps intuiting the more highly political period Godard was about to enter, this perceived ambivalence towards his characters also marked the last time Godard would employ conventional notions of character psychology. “From Made in USA (1966)... Godard’s characters become ciphers, mouthpieces, emblems, allegories”, Martin affirms.

Format: Digital
Language: French with English subtitles
Source: Umbrella Entertainment
Courtesy: Umbrella Entertainment
Runtime: 90 min

Rating

MA15+

Viewers under the age of 15 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Contains strong sexual references.

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