With Masculin féminin,the ruthless stylist and iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) introduces the world to “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola,” through a gang of restless youths engaged in hopeless love affairs with music, revolution, and one another.
French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud (The 400 Blows) stars as Paul, an idealistic would-be intellectual struggling to forge a relationship with the adorable pop star Madeleine (real-life yé-yé girl Chantal Goya). Through their tempestuous affair, Godard fashions a candid and wildly funny free-form examination of youth culture in pulsating 1960s Paris, mixing satire and tragedy as only Godard can.
Extras
New 4K digital restoration, approved by cinematographer Willy Kurant, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Interview from 1966 with actor Chantal Goya
Interviews from 2004 and 2005 with Goya, Kurant, and Jean-Luc Godard collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin
Discussion of the film from 2004 between film critics Freddy Buache and Dominique Païni
Footage from Swedish television of Godard directing the “film within the film” scene
Trailers
PLUS: An essay by film critic Adrian Martin and a reprint of a report from the set by French journalist Philippe Labro
